On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 12:05:30PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 7/7/19 9:42 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > >On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 08:44:52 -0500 > >Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> wrote: > > > >Hello Mark, > > >>I am not exactly sure why you are concerned about "mixed repos". > > > >Personally, I'm not. However, the nature of your questions indicated to > >me that you aren't entirely at home fiddling with this stuff. I stress; > >to me. It also seems I may have come to the wrong conclusion about your > >capabilities in this area. My apologies. > > No problem. I am experienced, but I don't subscribe to all the > mailing lists. I'm no guru. > > > > >Having a mixture of stable and testing under certain circumstances can > >be a recipe for disaster. Check the list archives; there are quite a > >few examples of people getting into a mess when mixing repos in this way. > > > > Generally updates to discrete packages and sets of packages are > okay. I am careful about system packages. E.g., I would update VLC > or LibreOffice, but not systemd. Take into account that one of those might want to pull in a new libc (the installer will make a lot of noise then :-) That's where the real fun starts... Cheers -- t
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