Re: Constant up dates, repeated reboots

Worik Stanton <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:52:42 +1200
Newsgroups	gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On 15/07/14 10:31, Thomi Richards wrote:
> fact, I'm pretty sure we don't do that), but it's possible that Worik had
> them enabled in precise, at a time in the development cycle where there
> weren't many things being added to backports. Then, after doing a

I think that is a fact.

This is my laptop where I take a very "what the hell" approach.

My dissatisfaction with updates was on my VPS which I would like to
never reboot.  There I do not take that attitude it is there I am
careful, and there where I should *not* have done do-upgrade without
taking much more care.

I still think the balance is wrong in the update system.  For example
(and without deep thought) I would like to be able to have a choice in
the update system of marking packages as "do not update".  For example I
would like updates to my compiler tool-chain but I do not care about my
PDF reader.  If it breaks I could check if there are updates for it
available.

As for my VPS I am considering taking my crucial software out of package
management and using source tarballs (like I did back in the day) so I
do not get surprised like I did.  I think I would only need  four at most.

I would like it if I had been notified that Apache was going from 2.2 to
2.4 and the configuration files were changing, and on reflection I may
have been, but in all the noise of 100s of packages I missed it.  I have
been trying to think how this could have been done better by Cannonical,
and I have some ideas, but I am not in control of that.  I should be in
control of my own important software - handing over control to
Cannonical is lazy.  Problem is I am very busy (avoiding work by typing
here....)

Still loving the imperfect Ubuntu system.  What is ever perfect?

toodle pip
W

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