On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:56:50PM +0000, RichardA said > I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my > install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. > Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, Well, unstable does break, and you need to know how to use the basic tools to fix it: dpkg, ar, apt, sometimes even editing the maintainer scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ (carefully!). > and pull many > packages from the server, each time? if you mean "will upgrading lots of packages at once increase the chance of things breaking horribly?", then not really. > Is there a (n easy) way to use a > local cache? apt-proxy works well enough, most of the time. > Once up and running, how often should I update? Every night? Depends on how often you can be bothered to sit through a dist-upgrade. I find I only bother every few weeks, nowadays, unless there's something I really want right away, or some serious bug has been fixed. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: unclassified Ermes class struggle Hacker SCUD missile
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