Re: just shoot me

1998-10-21 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:40:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Personally, on production machines that you don't have access to easily > enough (for me that is walking into the next room) I'd not even think of > upgrading from a stable to a frozen. I'd just ride the stables out. There is one t

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:17:11 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:40:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Personally, on production machines that you don't have access to easily >> enough (for me that is walking into the next room) I'd not even think of >> upgrading from a stab

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:40:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Personally, on production machines that you don't have access to easily > enough (for me that is walking into the next room) I'd not even think of > upgrading from a stable to a frozen. I'd just ride the stables out. Each to their

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-20 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: > > I just wonder when a freeze is announced, a lot of people load up > their systems from unstable to give it a good workout. You might consider > this a wide but not ubiquitous beta. At this p

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-19 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:15:45 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: >I just wonder when a freeze is announced, a lot of people load up >their systems from unstable to give it a good workout. You might consider >this a wide but not ubiquitous beta. At this point, now that you have >several more tim

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-19 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > That turned out to be the problem. I thought SURE I had that package on > "hold" in dselect but I must have made a slip-up. For all practical > purposes 1.3-29 should be considered FATAL. Maybe Debian was a bit > premature in its freeze announcement ;)

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-18 Thread servis
*- George Bonser wrote about "just shoot me" | | I upgraded a remote server last night to slink and have not heard from it | since. I did notice that the telnet session I was on was ok and the box | could see incoming traffic but it could not reply. In other words, when I | try to tel