apt-get update

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:58:50PM -0400, Merv Curley wrote:
>On Monday 28 August 2006 14:48, geofm-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:
>
>>
>> But, be careful doing an apt-get upgrade. I've trashed 2 Debian based
>> distros doing this. And at least with Kanotix Easter-RC4 the Debian
>> repositories they use are so flaky that even installing a simple applet
>> leads to trashing CUPS and other things.
>>
>Well I have had the opposite experience,  3 dist-upgrades and no problems.  
>Born under a lucky star for the month of Aug.  Might not go so well in Sept.  

I suspect that this is a Kanotix issue.  I don't know anything about
Kanotix, but I suspect that it is different from stock Debian in *some*
way, which may account for the problems.  I have been running Debian on
diverse hardware in both testing and stable branches for several years,
and run apt-get dist-upgrade ~5 times per week per machine with no
problems - including the change from XFree86 to X.org.  YMMV, but I went
with Debian years ago because, while not fanatical myself, I benefit
from the Debian fanaticism for "correctness" and consistency and license
compliance.
-- 

yours,

William

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