On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:08:08PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > >Hello. I did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade today and now my > >system is borked.
I'd love to know the etymology of that word. Wikipedia says "possibly" related to the Swedish Chef (which was the first thing I thought of), although it could be an homage to the failed nomination of Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court. > Word to the wise (and I'm sure this doesn't help you much now), but I > think you're much better off keeping to the "if it ain't broke dont' fix > it" philosophy with the underlying components that MythTV relies on such > as the OS, QT, drivers, etc. Unless you had some reason to upgrade > every component in your system at once, I'd say, leave well enough alone. Debian recently switched from XFree86 to XOrg. I updated one of my front-end machines and it was such a hassle I left the other one alone. The problem is pretty deep in the lib dependencies - to get from one version of X to the other basically required uninstalling MythTV and then reinstalling again. FWIW, I *never* *EVER* do "apt-get upgrade". It's just too dangerous to allow an automated tool make that many changes without knowing in advance what's going to happen. As maligned as it is, I prefer to use dselect to view the impact of upgrades so I can hold back changes that would cause applications to be uninstalled due to missing dependencies (which often happens on testing/unstable because the apps and libraries don't get committed together). I still use apt-get to install individual packages. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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