Re: delaying upgrades dangerous?
On Thursday 02 November 2006 12:59, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:24:34AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > Is it the case that the longer you wait between upgrades the more trouble
> > you're likely to have with broken dependencies, etc?
>
> Hi tom,
> it depends upon which flavor of Debian you use:
> with stable, you should be able to upgrade to no problems. And upgrade
> are ususally to fix security issues.
> with testing, upgrades can be affected by missing dependencies that have
> not migrated to testing yet from unstable.
> with unstable, all bug fixes enter here first, so there is less of a
> chance of the dependency not being there.
>
> but there is a problem that affect all debian mirrors:
> old packages exists with a corresponding Packages/Sources file
> when new packages are moved in, old packages are removed
> the Packages/Sources file may not match while this transition is
> happening. This means that if you apt-get during this period, the
> Package/Sources file will want to get OLDPKG when it was just removed.
> Hopefully this is an accurate description from my understanding.
> cheers,
> Kev
It sounds like testing is the distribution with the most likelihood of
dependency problems. It this is so, people should be warned. On the face of
it, it might seem that unstable would be the most troublesome in this
respect.
tom
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