Re: [OT] Upgrade madness (Was: Re: Do developers tend to run unstable?)

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:14:51PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> (Un)fortunately, I *do* have a DSL connection, and I routinely upgrade my
> woody system. In fact, I upgrade it so often (since slink days, too) that
> in my personal logs I've developed a system of acronyms to describe such
> events:

I have a cron job to do
	apt-get update && apt-get --yes --download-only dist-upgrade
nightly. It spares me much of the pain of watching downloads run, even
though DSL mitigates that somewhat. I do check in to see if anything
has broken before actually doing a real dist-upgrade, though.
Most of the things I'm interested in working on don't have big impacts
on the usability of the system, so I'm not a front-line bughunter.

Cheers,
Bill
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