Re: how do I upgrade while I sleep?

[Carl Fink <carl@fink.to>]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:01:20PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hi folks.  How do I upgrade while I sleep?  Or, more specifically, how 
> do I set it up so that all the questions about scripts that have been 
> changed, which are different from the package maintainers scripts, 
> asking if it should keep the current version, or install the new one, 
> blah blah blah.... the default is ... 
> Hell, what do I know?  I'm a desktop user who's too cheap to buy 
> Windows; so, I go with Linux (I am going to donate some cash SPI, 
> however).  So I always choose the default answer.  How can I set up my 
> upgrade from Sarge to Etch, to run while I'm sleeping, without it asking 
> me stupid questions that I don't give a shit about?  Just have it 
> upgrade, and not bother me, fer Christ's sake.  Aw, then I can just 
> sleep.  Blissful sleep.

Don't.  Sarge is fine for most purposes.  Why would someone uninterested in
learning administration want to upgrade from a stable system to something
less stable?
>
> Also, is Etch now sane?  Last time I tried an upgrade, it gave me all 
> this crap about the new udev requiring a new kernel, but I couldn't 
> install the new kernel, because it required the new udev (I'm sure the 
> obvious catch-22 was a  practical joke played by some asshole -- I can't 
> imagine anyone actually making such a blatantly obvious, inane error 
> honestly).

I repeat: don't use Etch.  I isn't meant for desktop users, it's for
"testing" new software before its formal release.
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Carl Fink                                         carl@fink.to
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