[Gllug] Wide eyed and Innocent new members.

Jonathan Harker jon at jonathanharker.co.uk
Wed Oct 23 19:49:18 UTC 2002


On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 4:45 am, David Cantrell wrote:
> Also, whilst apt-get dist-upgrade is very shiny I'm sure, there's no way
> in hell I'll trust it to upgrade a production box.  To start with, the
> whole point of debian-stable is that the feature set is stable.  The
> feature set can change from one version of the distribution to another.
> That's one reason why Debian packages always seem to be such old versions
> and why security patches have to be back-ported.

Although I have a funny feeling lots of people do use Debian and apt-get 
upgrade... I think Brother Steve used dist-upgrade on a prod box... Steve?

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Jonathan Harker
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