On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Narendra Diwate <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Is it OK to skip/jump updates? > > What I mean is if i have a package version 1 and a few days later version 2 > is available, can i skip it and update directly when version 3 or 4 is > available? For packages that have many dependencies will this have a > possibility of breakage or dependency issues?
Yes. It is perfectly fine. Whatever update was done in version 2 is going to stay in 3 and 4 as well. Also updates do not usually affect the other packages depending on the one being updated. If it does indeed affect other packages, then such packages are updated as well. You should check the changelog to decide if an update is worth your bandwidth or not, specifically when package in question is a big one like OO.o or Firefox. Of course you should not ideally skip security updates. And in recent versions of Ubuntu you get popup every day if you have pending security updates. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
