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Am 03.06.2013 01:36, schrieb david:
<blockquote cite="mid:51ABD6FA.5070807@hawaii.rr.com" type="cite">I
always do a backup first. Have had trivial things like changes in
X video drivers make X unusable.
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">Although I benefit
from the developments in multimedia
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software I'm not sure I like exposing my system to so many
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opportunities for failure.
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A strategy I've used in past is to <b class="moz-txt-star"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>not<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
upgrade until I
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need something. Maybe could call it it "choose your own
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freeze".
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I usually just upgrade what I want when I want.
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I do it the other way round, I put on hold what I didn't want to
upgrade, and upgrade the rest.<br>
I never do a backup, and in the last 10 Years I didn't ever need
one. <span class="moz-smiley-s3"><span> ;-) </span></span><br>
I usually do apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade and
read the output, that gives me enough information if I need to put
packages on hold, or if I could safely just run the full upgrade.<br>
If a package is broken after upgrade, I just downgrade it to the one
from testing.<br>
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