[Gllug] Wide eyed and Innocent new members.

[Stephen Harker]

Adam Bower wrote:
> 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.

Do you mean dist-upgrade to mean taking a machine from say Potato to 
Woody, or do you mean a daily security update which only ever upgrades 
things that need patching?

Steve


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