Re: Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote:
> > I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly
> > required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this
> > little lot...
[Perl 5.6 reorg, revert to stable/testing]
OK, the easy route sounds like a good plan :) Alternatively, I might just
not do any upgrades for a couple of weeks until perl sorts itself
out... as I remmeber, I was using unstable because quite a few of the
packages I needed either weren't in testing/stable or were quite decrepit
old versions..
> Incidentally, when you do 'dist-upgrade' on unstable, you're simply
> ASKING for trouble. At the most, would only run the following in a
> cron job:
Oh god no I don't run it automatically! I wouldn't even do that on
'stable' - I like to be at the console when I do it, to catch any odd
errors as they appear...
Thanks for the reply :)
Kind regards,
Gavin.
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