* Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Moving this back on list so every gets the benefit. >
Very sorry. I hit the r instead of L. I tend to do that when I am not thinking, and that is too often. > With Etch there will be more updates. I also recommend against having > them automatically installed since they may be more disruptive. The > main problem is that the freeze is impending. This means that there is > a flurry of activity as maintainers try and get updated version of their > packages into Sid in time for them to migrate to Etch. Your call. I looked at the man page, and it is somewhat meager. I looked online and most info was equally so, and included mostly recommendations that a line for MAILON="always" be included. And the config file is a bit hairy. So, I am curious now about what this really does behind the scenes. For instance, what does this do differently than apt-get update and apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade)? When you say you manually install them does that mean you run dpkg on each package in turn, or that you merely run apt-get upgrade yourself? I guess being rather new to the Debian ways I am still seeing in a fog on some of these things. Many thanks again for the help. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
