Re: [SLUG] [OT] Debian Flame on LWN

[michaelf@xxxxxxxxxx]

Quoting Thom May <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> It also has an entirely different upgrade path - ie:
> RHAT - oooh, need to upgrade! back everything up, floor box,
> rebuild from scratch, reinstall all custom stuff etc...
> Debian - `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade`

Try running non-standard packages... ie.. qmail-src etc installed. 2 machines I 
had broke very bad when I upgraded. Although without qmail-src installed/setup, 
the machines upgraded fine.

That is of course only one example, but I have had strange things happen in the 
slink -> potato upgrade.

Although, I ended up grabbing a beta cycle potato cd set a few months back, 
built the machine on those, and just kept apt-get updating the packages 
installed. Never had problems since.

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