Partial Upgrades?

Should probably get a sticky for this up now. 23meg's old one in the Karmic forum was good.

Slug71 said: Should probably get a sticky for this up now. 23meg's old one in the Karmic forum was good.

Coming up soon.

I think it is the curiousity that kills the system.

never do partial upgrades, never!!

jppr said: never do partial upgrades, never!!

Sometimes they're safe. Better advice is don't just blindly do a partial upgrade. Do a little homework to find out why a partial upgrade warning is being displayed, then you can make an educated decision reagrding whether or not to proceed.

jppr said: never do partial upgrades, never!!

That's not good advice.

If you're using Update Manager as the only tool for updating packages, that will lead to packages that are *meant to be* replaced being held back indefinitely, and will lead to an installation where you have old packages lingering around until the end of the cycle, potentially causing unintended behavior.

And I am, right now, running a dist-upgrade in apt.

I ain't scared.

Just about a thousand and a half packages (9.04 to 9.10). Then I can do it again to this OS and have a Stoner Lizard Edition1.0.

You have to live a little and have FUN with this stuff.

I have uninstalled update mangler in this install because it irritates me. The other Lounge is Kinky upgraded with UM on it.