I upgrade too, but with some trepidation. I was an unfortunate victim of
a bad disk space estimator script in the upgrade software (now some
years ago on an early Ubuntu). The Ubuntu folk were apologetic, but ...
An upgrade that hits the filesystem limit gives one a very
unsatisfactory system.
John Nash
-- who seems to be the finder of such bugs.
On 14-09-27 04:31 PM, Matt Dowle wrote:
On 27/09/14 21:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 27 September 2014 at 21:04, Matt Dowle wrote:
| On 27/09/14 20:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| The fear may be that a fresh install will be needed (a pain) as
But Matt, I never said or implied "fresh install". My exact words,
from two
emails ago:
"I would upgrade, which I do every six months."
Upgrade, not "reinstall".
| might not work. That's why I switched to a rolling release (LMDE) so
Rolling releases rock. Debian pretty much invented this with "testing"
which
is a rolling release receiving packages from the top (aka "unstable") if
(approximatly) no new upload was made, no critical bugs appeared and
it is
not blocking another packages dependency graph. So in essence "always
ten
days fresh" (as eg for my R builds). That rocks, and it is getting more
recognition now.
| I'll never need to upgrade and reinstall and setup all the software I
| need and config again. So they tell me. I'll tell you if it's
true in
| a few years! My /home is mounted on its own partition, so that's
not a
| pain (but is for users who don't know how to use gparted to do that),
| but even then I fear problems if I point a new release to my single
| /home and then need to roll back (the new release may have changed
files
| in ~).
| Do you do a fresh install every 6 months or do you upgrade your
existing?
For one reason or another the majority of my machines (at home and
work) are
actually running Ubuntu.
And I __always__ updated __all of them__ every six months __whenever a
new
release comes out__. Some of these may now have had over ten
upgrades. No
issues. I tend to do the auxiliary machines at home first, then my main
laptop, then the server and then the machines at work.
It. just. works.
And is the least amount of work as far as I can tell.
Dirk
Very interesting. Ok, yep, Matthieu really has no excuse for not
upgrading then.
Matt
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