Re: problems with latest mega-upgrade | PM utility not found?

Well, my 2 cents Canadian (1.85 cents American)

On 06/23/2015 06:03 PM, Colin McLarty wrote:
> I normally update every couple of days, but stagger the updates
> over several computers so in the rare event that one causes a problem I am
> still okay.

More or less what I do -- I'm in the lucky position of having multiple 
machines. My 'test machine', my 'one step back' machine, and my 'mission 
critical machine'. I do updates on the test machine. If now smoke and 
flames, then after about a week, put them on my 'one step back' machine. 
Another week, browsing MikTeX maillist archives, then apply to mission 
critical. Probably overkill, especially since I can roll back out of the 
.zip backup I make (and have mirrored on multiple cloud servers), but 
LaTeX is an essential application. If it fails, I'd die...or have to use 
Word, which at some obvious levels is probably redundant.


>
> But now I hope to get advice on when to do the mega-upgrade while
> travelling in China.  I will be travelling well into August.  I have only
> one computer with me, I absolutely need to be able to run  LaTeX, I have
> limited web access and I have a lot of other demands on my energy and time.

If LaTeX is currently working, then I'd say, do nothing. If it ain't 
broke, don't fix...

>
> On the other hand, because I especially want to get all security updates

I don't see anything in the current list of upgrades that smacks of a 
'security fix', but someone closer to 'source' would need to confirm.

>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Evan Cooch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 1\ make .zip or equivalent backup of my current MikTeX install. If you
>> install as a single-user, this works fine. You can roll back to this
>> version simply by extracting everything back out from the .zip archive.
>
> I know enough that I could probably do this correctly  But I have never
> actually done such a thing and am not *sure* I would get it right.
>
> So I suppose my best option is to wait until the upgrade stabilizes and the
> bugs are caught and worked out.  Is that right?
>
> Should I just wait until people stop reporting new problems on this list?
> Or should I give it a couple of weeks?  Or how should I judge when it is
> time to do?
>
> Colin
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