on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:33:32AM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:46:31 +0200 > "Stefan Waidele jun." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But with debian-unstable the chance of 'getting the workstation hosed' > > during and 'apt-get upgrade' is greater than with debian-testing, isn't it? > > So don't do an apt-get upgrade. First install apt-listchanges and > apt-listbugs. With those you see what's changed and if something has > a grave bug filed against it a prompt on whether or not to install it. > Then after that just don't do a mass upgrade all that often. Only > upgrade what you have to when you have to. IE, security things and > packages that you absolutely need the latest on. Let the rest upgrade > by proxy off the packages you do upgrade. Every once in a while do a > careful aptitude upgrade to bring the rest of the packages up to > speed. Following those rules I've had my server running on unstable > for well over a year with no serious problems. I've also had > workstations riding unstable for over 2 years like that. It just > takes some judicious monitoring. Oh, and learn how to downgrade > packages from unstable to testing if needed.
I've just installed these. A few questions.
- I run apt-proxy for a set of six systems hosted off 56K dialup. Any
chance on caching the results of the listchanges/listbugs queries?
Hrm. I've also got squid running. Should make that transparent....
I'm assuming http transport.
- How are people using listbugs? With a long enough change report, I
sort of go into MEGO. What keywords jump out?
'(important|serious|grave)'?
Peace.
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