RE: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list
On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:42 AM Colin Watson wrote:
>On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote:
>> Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote:
>>> I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do
>>> it; there are lots of ways it can break.
>>
>> I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why is this
>> a problem? Please excuse my inexperience here.
>
> Upgrades require interaction from time to time, such as conffile
> merges. Even with packages that use debconf, the defaults you get
> with the noninteractive frontend aren't always what you want.
Ah. This makes perfect sense. Good enough for me. Thanks.
Michael
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