Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45:43AM +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-30 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages. With this in mind, what do the more

Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages. With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages. You

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 02:32, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
AG: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? I usually install all available upgrades daily (or even twice a day) using 'sudo aptitude update sudo aptitufe

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread John Hasler
AG writes: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? Nothing. I make no attempt to track Unstable. I keep an eye on what's new and what is being reported broken on

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and I manually use apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. If no packages are being kept back, I

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-27 02:32, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Jochen Schulz wrote: AG: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? I usually install all available upgrades daily (or even twice a day) using 'sudo aptitude

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
John Hasler wrote: AG writes: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? Nothing. I make no attempt to track Unstable. I keep an eye on what's new and what is being

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Tim Beauregard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and I manually use apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. If no

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages. With this in mind, what do the more

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
AG: As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user? I can only speak

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Miles Bader
AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com writes: As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are superfluous from the perspective of an

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:09:34 +0200 Siggy Brentrup deb...@psycho.i21k.de wrote: ... In my understanding there is no warranty whatsoever that testing / unstable won't burn your house, void the universe or whatever you can imagine. Nitpick: *no* version of Debian, not even stable, comes with

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:34:19 +0900 Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com writes: As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with these, or because they are no good, or