I upgrade my machines
Submitted by root
| Hourly |
   0% | 4 votes |
| Daily |
31% | 135 votes |
| Weekly |
31% | 133 votes |
| Monthly |
8% | 36 votes |
| At new stable releases |
8% | 35 votes |
| For security updates only |
18% | 79 votes |
| Total 422 votes |
Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Tue 10 Jan 2006 at 15:29
When cron-apt says there are updates.
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Well - depends on the machine :)
My laptop and home workstation (sid) - somewhere between daily and weekly.
My web server (sarge) - whenever a security fix that affects it is issued.
Couple of other boxes (file server etc) - whenever I remember :)
My laptop and home workstation (sid) - somewhere between daily and weekly.
My web server (sarge) - whenever a security fix that affects it is issued.
Couple of other boxes (file server etc) - whenever I remember :)
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Posted by sabin (193.171.xx.xx) on Wed 11 Jan 2006 at 07:18
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I have one main server (sarge) and I hit apt-get update/upgrade every day when I check my logs (daily logwatch reports, snort reports etc.)
./sabin -s
./sabin -s
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Sarge based servers gets updated when new updates are available, i usually check once a week, must setup cron-apt to do that for me :)
for desktop etch/sid i usually check every couple of days. Couple of days ago i dist-upgraded to sid and everything worked! (so far)
for desktop etch/sid i usually check every couple of days. Couple of days ago i dist-upgraded to sid and everything worked! (so far)
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Servers use a cron job for finding out if there are updates. Then run them manually. My laptop and home machine are both stable and get updated when I remember or for security. The work maching is SID and gets updates when ever I want to play with something new.
Kind of backwards that work machine SID thing, but hasn't bit me to hard yet. Actually I use XFCE now because a couple times KDE went bust. I just couldn't get into Gnome(though that is what I used for the first couple years). Its just that I don't want to do "work" at home. :-)
Kind of backwards that work machine SID thing, but hasn't bit me to hard yet. Actually I use XFCE now because a couple times KDE went bust. I just couldn't get into Gnome(though that is what I used for the first couple years). Its just that I don't want to do "work" at home. :-)
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Internal only webserver - internal to the enterprise - I cannot get out with apt, so it's update by hand when a major update catches my eye.
Edge machines - daily via cron. Fileservers, weekly via cron. Most of the machines are fairly sparse on the software - not a ton of cruft installed. So, it's not that bad.
Edge machines - daily via cron. Fileservers, weekly via cron. Most of the machines are fairly sparse on the software - not a ton of cruft installed. So, it's not that bad.
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Mostly when a new stable release comes out.
Apart from I've not updated my box from woody to sarge yet, am worried that it will break things. lol
Apart from I've not updated my box from woody to sarge yet, am worried that it will break things. lol
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I do not upgrade the whole machine at any given time. I have a list of my favorite packages set up (maxima, texmacs, gfortran, fftw, octave etc.,) and I just upgrade them when the new versions are out.
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