On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Paul Gear <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/02/12 12:55, Ian Fleming wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:37:25PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > >> ... and have patience for your package manager breaking every time you > >> update. > >> ... > > No fun. I do not recommend the testing repo and one just has to go to > archlinux.org > > before the upgrade to look for those very rare show stoppers (ive had > one in 2 years) or just review the upgrades > > output for any warnings. Fun. > > I've experienced major breakage every time (all three of them ;-) i've > touched an Arch Linux system and tried to update a package. And that > was with their "stable" repo. Note that this was just updating to apply > security updates, not anything analogous to a Debian or Ubuntu > distribution upgrade. > > > True you can not upgrade blindly. That applies to all distros! > > I've upgraded almost blindly on Debian & Ubuntu many times and not had > even the troubles i had on simple application of security updates on Arch. > > As a general rule, if you apt-get upgrade, you are always going to be safe. If you apt-get dist-upgrade, you should know what you are doing (packages can be removed). Just be aware of the differences. My workflow is typically apt-get upgrade and then dist-upgrade. If dist-upgrade tells me that some package will be removed and it looks important (unity, ubuntu-desktop etc), I leave it alone for a day and then start it over again. Ubuntu is by far the most stable upgrades I've ever experienced. IMO, nothing else comes close. > -- > Drive-by downloads and cross-site scripting attacks while Web browsing > are some of the greatest online security threats to desktop computers. > Browsing with the NoScript Firefox extension can greatly reduce the > chance of these exploits. http://noscript.net/ > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > >
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