Bug#59724: apt: fetching only packages of a decent age
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.18
Severity: wishlist
Especially in the late stages of a new release (like we have it now with
potato), some sites - including us - are tempted to run production machines
on frozen. This usually works fine.
However, when doing a dist-upgrade, there is a decent chance that the system
will be broken by defective packages that are downloaded and installed. This
is a major risk currently causing non-update of production machines at all -
never touch a running system.
How about having "apt-get --age 5 dist-upgrade" that only downloads and
installs packages that are at least five days old? That way, one wouldn't
install packages that have been very recently downloaded, and a package that
reaches the age of n days can probably be regarded as sufficiently
bug-free to be used on a production machine.
Greetings
MArc
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux paola 2.2.14 #1 Sun Feb 27 15:41:04 CET 2000 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-6 The GNU stdc++ library
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