On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 06:17, Timothy Murphy wrote: > But surely other problems are going to show up at some point, > whether you do it automatically or not? > You cannot tell beforehand if installation of a package > is going to cause difficulties. > Or at least I can't. Sometimes you can't even tell immediately afterwords - for example after some update the system decided not to start interfaces if the config files had a hardware address entry that did not match the ethernet MAC address of the associated NIC. Since most of my machines have hard drives cloned from a master machine and are at remote locations, this made things interesting later on when the first reboots happened. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
