Re: System maintenance
* Roberto C. Sanchez (roberto@connexer.com) wrote:
> Moving this back on list so every gets the benefit.
>
Very sorry. I hit the r instead of L. I tend to do that when I am
not thinking, and that is too often.
> With Etch there will be more updates. I also recommend against having
> them automatically installed since they may be more disruptive. The
> main problem is that the freeze is impending. This means that there is
> a flurry of activity as maintainers try and get updated version of their
> packages into Sid in time for them to migrate to Etch. Your call.
I looked at the man page, and it is somewhat meager. I looked online
and most info was equally so, and included mostly recommendations that
a line for MAILON="always" be included. And the config file is a bit
hairy. So, I am curious now about what this really does behind the
scenes.
For instance, what does this do differently than apt-get update and
apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade)? When you say you manually install
them does that mean you run dpkg on each package in turn, or that you
merely run apt-get upgrade yourself? I guess being rather new to the
Debian ways I am still seeing in a fog on some of these things.
Many thanks again for the help.
Patrick
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