Just a quick question......
What are the best update habits for SID?
I have been updating with
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
once a week or so and seem to have around 125 updates each week. Is once a week often enough to update? Or to often (if possible)?
Also is dist-upgrade still the recommended update command?
Thanks guys
I use smxi which does dist-upgrade but have been running it every couple of days.
It seems that upgrades are coming more frequently now that Wheezy has become stable.
Daily lwfitz, it is the only choice....
I have been running SID for a long time (5 years) and the absolute best thing you can do is daily updates to avoid massive updates and those dreaded dependency breakdowns
This is the main reason why I included aliases so that users can easily do them daily
If there is a massive amount of stuff when I want to do a dist-upgrade, is it then better to do an upgrade first, and the dist-upgrade after that?
Good question blaze, but since I only use dist-upgrade I am not sure which is better
@ VastOne and jst_joe
Thanks guys. For safety sake Ill start updating daily :)
@ Blaze
Thats a great question. Seems like that could really limit breakage or dependency issues.
If you're tracking SID, you always want to do a dist-upgrade and not an upgrade. You can think of an upgrade in SID like a brake in an ice storm. Treat both like they don't exist. ;)
-Hinto
^ Perfectly said... ;D
ok, but if I am on lets say a 3.7.2 kernel and with a dist- upgrade will get a 3.9.8 kernel, is it still better to just do a dist-upgrade, and not an upgrade first, and after that do a dist-upgrade, I am talking massive upgrade with maybe 600 - 700 package upgrades, + 60 - 80 of new package installs? and is it possible to do a sort of "safe upgrade" with apt-get, like you can do with aptitude?
On SID, you always want to do a dist-upgrade.
-Hinto
Quote from: hinto on July 01, 2013, 12:28:47 AM
If you're tracking SID, you always want to do a dist-upgrade and not an upgrade. You can think of an upgrade in SID like a brake in an ice storm. Treat both like they don't exist. ;)
-Hinto
:D
Perfect, thanks Hinto.
I ran a single install of Kanotix, when it was based on SID, for about 6 years using the h2 scripts, which are now called smxi.
-H