Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:16:59AM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:25:19 +0530
> Amit Joshi wrote:
>
> Hello Amit,
>
> > Also, do all of you do a daily upgrade of your "Debian Testing" to
> > stay uptodate and avoid bulk upgrades?

not usually daily. More like once a week. And then only when the other
Debian installation on the same machine is working perfectly. Which is
almost always, it being stable.

Stable, on the other hand, I upgrade rarely, and only when the testing
installation on the other partition is working adequately. Unless that
one is long-term dead (as now), when I still need the security fixes.

-- hendrik

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Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

Submitted by Kamaraju Kusumanchi on Thu, 2006-11-23 15:00.

On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:55, Amit Joshi wrote:

> Also, do all of you do a daily upgrade of your "Debian Testing" to stay
> uptodate and avoid bulk upgrades?

No, I don't regularly update my testing machine. I have a list of favorite
packages (like vim, konsole, firefox, texmacs etc.,) written down in a file
and I just update these pieces of software whenever a new version is
available. Next, whenever I want to report a bug against a package, reportbug
checks for availability of new versions.If reportbug shows that updates are
available, then I update the package to see if the bug goes away...

hth
raju

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