On Sat, 13 May 2017 16:16:48 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:03:18AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sat, 13 May 2017 01:06:38 -1000 > > Joel Roth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Long before three weeks ago. I don't usually upgrade or > > > dist-upgrade unless there is some particular need. > > > Probably I'm not alone, even if that is not considered > > > best practice. > > > > I never dist-upgrade. From what I hear, it breaks things. If I feel > > the need to dist-upgrade, it's probably time to back up, reformat > > the disks, and clean-install a later version. > > > > Just to avoid confusion, in this specific case there was no need at > all to dist-upgrade. A simple apt-get upgrade would have pulled the > correct version of reportbug. > > And since it has been mentioned, dist-upgrade does not break anything, > if done correctly. I had a desktop which went from etch to wheezy, > without a single reinstall, and several other machines which saw at > least three different releases, again without a single reinstall. This > is what people mean when they say that De??an is "rock-solid", > "reliable", and "durable". > > HND > > KatolaZ > ..I came in woody time from the cold dropped Red Hat 7.3, I've dist-upgraded from woody and sarge to sid/wheezy, and from lenny to sid/Jessie. Only reason I left SuSE-5.2 (It rocked!), was I didn't know how to do "insmod -v sb16" to get audio. ;o) ..I've only had 2 things break, hardware and pöttercode, first pulseaudio and then systemd, but the biggest problem for me was DD's abandoning their packages on leaving Debian, months before I even realised I had a systemd problem. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
