[Gllug] Wide eyed and Innocent new members.

[Adam Bower]

Simon Stewart wrote:
> On Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002, at 20:49 Europe/London, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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?
> 
> 
> I've done it without a hitch, but the important services offered by my 
> servers are always hand compiled. For some reason, I don't trust 
> packages to meet my servers' needs....

I have done it before too, just you have to do a bit of checking first 
to see what it is going to upgrade. Put any packages you are not sure 
about and rely on to work on hold. Also making sure you only use the 
command line switch for simulate before going for the real thing.

Adam


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