Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable
At 10:56 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, Mark wrote:
I installed unstable about a month ago and have had nothing but good
times. I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for
problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that
many (a few regarding kde / libfam issues). But, I'm curious to know how
safe/dangerous it is to just say 'apt-get upgrade' presently.
Do an 'apt-get -u upgrade' and it will show you what's going to be
installed, removed, upgraded, and so on. If anything listed concerns you,
like gcc, glibc, or something, ask...
Thing is, someone could have updated their glibc package yesterday with no
problem. After that, the developer updated it, broke something, and then
you turn around and grab that broken package and then run into major
problems ! This happened with 'libpam' many months ago. Basically, if you
updated it and logged out, you couldn't log back in...
Heh, that's why it's called "unstable", 'cause it can be !
Hall
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