[LAU] Jack, lowlatency, generic, update

[david]

On 06/02/2013 08:33 PM, hermann meyer wrote:
> Am 03.06.2013 01:36, schrieb david:
>> I always do a backup first. Have had trivial things like changes in X
>> video drivers make X unusable.
>>
>>> Although I benefit from the developments in multimedia
>>> software I'm not sure I like exposing my system to so many
>>> opportunities for failure.
>>>
>>> A strategy I've used in past is to *not* upgrade until I
>>> need something. Maybe could call it it "choose your own
>>> freeze".
>>
>> I usually just upgrade what I want when I want.
>
> I do it the other way round, I put on hold what I didn't want to
> upgrade, and upgrade the rest.
> I never do a backup, and in the last 10 Years I didn't ever need one. ;-)

Good thing your hard drive hasn't failed on you, then. ;-)

> 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.

I just look at what's marked upgradeable in Synaptic.

> If a package is broken after upgrade, I just downgrade it to the one
> from testing.

So how does one downgrade? That I haven't figured out.

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