On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote: > > I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly > > required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this > > little lot...
[Perl 5.6 reorg, revert to stable/testing] OK, the easy route sounds like a good plan :) Alternatively, I might just not do any upgrades for a couple of weeks until perl sorts itself out... as I remmeber, I was using unstable because quite a few of the packages I needed either weren't in testing/stable or were quite decrepit old versions.. > Incidentally, when you do 'dist-upgrade' on unstable, you're simply > ASKING for trouble. At the most, would only run the following in a > cron job: Oh god no I don't run it automatically! I wouldn't even do that on 'stable' - I like to be at the console when I do it, to catch any odd errors as they appear... Thanks for the reply :) Kind regards, Gavin.
