Steffen Kluge wrote:
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 14:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Respectfully, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. I update
my system about once a month.
Why is it safer to update 10 packages once a month than 0.33 packages
every day?
If _I_ do the update, I see that it's done and I see what is done. The
information is in my head and my prospects of making a connexion are good.
Also, if someone released a broken package, there's a good chance I will
find out and/or it will be fixed before I install it.
The serious folk have test systems on which to test and evaluate the
reliability of the fixes on their systems. It would not surprise me at
all if they normally only start to update when the get their updated
CDs, and that they take some weeks to go through the testing cycle.
I used to be a systems programmer (think sysadmin) reponsble for
maintaining mainframe computers used for making social security payments
throughout Australia, and we did not install fixes unless something was
broken for us.
If we needed to reinstall (maybe to support new hardware), then we would
use the latest release of our software.
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Cheers
John
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