3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
12:06 a.m.
david wrote:
Debian's been no problem at all with upgrades. Even successfully
changed from stable to sid once simply by changing my repositories.
Upgraded Sid on my desktop machine today, 440+ upgraded packages,
and it works flawlessly.
Greetings from the Debian upgrade treadmill ;-)
I've learned it works most reliably if you upgrade in two
stages:
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
I just verify that it won't removing major packages, and do
a backup first if I see that the C libraries are going to change,
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'm told this is sub-optimal because the package upgrade
scripts are not tested against all previous packages.
Regards,
--
Joel Roth