On 12/31/18 9:26 AM, Ben Koenig wrote:
These are mostly security updates that it pulls in. Set a schedule based on
your wants and needs.
Some people do weekly. Others monthly. In some cases users will check for
updates and make a decision to update based on their use case. There is no
right or wrong way.
To get a sense of how often Slackware pushes out security updates, and the
importance of these updates, check the changelog
http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=x86_64
Looking at that list, if I hadn't already done the upgrade the other
day, I would say I should do it to get the Thunderbird and Firefox
fixes. The Netatalk I'm not sure about. I read that it's an Apple Filing
Protocol and is used for print servers. At the moment that's not an
issue because I haven't got a working (on Linux) printer. But I will be
trying to get our Brother 7820N printer working again. It is a network
printer and works on my wife's Win7 machine, and has worked on my Ubuntu
machines. For some reason it fails to work after awhile. I can't be more
specific about "awhile" because of how infrequently I print anything.
It's possible some Ubuntu upgrade overwrites the Brother driver.
Anyway, based on my reading of the above link, It looks like I don't
need to do anything soon. I like the idea of setting a schedule, but not
an automated running of the update. What I might do is set up a CRON
entry to send me an email once a month to remind me to run the script
from the earlier post.
Thanks for the ideas.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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