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Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system



AG wrote:
Hi

Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages.

With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? I know that sidux users rely on some scripts - sxmi and sgfi (??) I think - but I wonder if that is what native sid users rely on or do you have your own recipes for maintaining reasonable stability? For example, the use of scripts such as those from sidux, or not doing a daily system update or ... ?

Thanks for any tips/ steers.

AG

My thanks to all who replied with ideas, tips and advice. Very helpful with some real gems that I will copy to a text file just in case all goes to hell in a hand-basket through my carelessness. Coupled with the research I must do with a back up routine, I am hoping that I will be able to weather most storms that unstable might send downstream.

As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user?

Once again.  Many thanks list.  I appreciate your input.

Best wishes

AG


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