Re: Testing upgrade and consequences
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Chris Bates wrote:
> Debian has two beautiful aspects (speaking as a refugee from NT and
> RedHat): it is very conservative and hence very stable;
agreed -- this is why I have been using it since 1996
> and apt-get install
> is one of the neatest ideas I've seen.
likewise -- this is the biggest plus point Debian has for me.
> I've only been using Debian GNU/Linux for a couple of months and early on I
> tried to do a dist-upgrade or similar.
-- I've been doing a dist-upgrade every night for the last eighteen
months. Any problems have been really minimal. I *trust* it.
> As regards packages which are imporant but which may not be *Debianized*, I
> put things like Java, Star Office and Adobe Acrobat in /opt.
Which is where mine were. Didn't stop StarOffice from being nuked, tho.
> I mention this because Martin seems to have lost things like
> SGML DTDs which should never have been placed in unsafe locations.
No -- didn't lose *any* DTDs. (They're safely catalogued.) Mainly lost
apps and above all, configuration files for apps. No idea why the
configuration files & directories seemed to be so badly nuked.
> Final thought, are these Debain tools suitable for business users?
Yes. (Professional sysadmins love 'em. Trainee sysadmins really
appreciate the ease of upgrade -- once they've fought with a couple of
non-installable RPMs, that is. Workstation *users* should never see
them.)
> Should
> any business auto-update anything? Probably not, certainly not on a
> critical system.
*Definitely* not on critical systems. Stable only; and nothing else.
(I just had a hankering to try testing, is all. <SIGH>)
> Businesses should use stable + security updates +
> upgrading key software only if it provides vital features.
Absolutely.
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