[ubuntu-in] Is it OK to jump updates?

[Narendra Diwate]

Well I am a decent Internet user and would like to keep my system updated.

The updates currently showing as important security updates are Libc and
Kernel that are together about 50MB. Thats huge and I would like to hold out
till I the next version is available.

Regards

Narendra Diwate




2010/6/3 Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Narendra Diwate
> <narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thats exactly the issue. The update manager pops up every day and shows
> me
> > 70MB of updates available. The updates are just minor version updates
> like
> > 1.0.0.1 from 1.0.0.0 and it does not seem worth the bandwidth especially
> > when i am on a limited data plan.
> >
>
> Try not to avoid Security Updates if you are a decent Internet User
> (If not also)...
> They are worth more than your Bandwidth...
>
> Also there is some configuration in "gconf-editor" through which you
> will be able to control when those updates should be notified
>
>
>
> > Thank you all once again.
> > Regards
> >
> > Narendra Diwate
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:27, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Narendra Diwate
> >> <narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > Is it OK to skip/jump updates?
> >> >
> >> > What I mean is if i have a package version 1 and a few days later
> >> > version 2
> >> > is available, can i skip it and update directly when version 3 or 4 is
> >> > available? For packages that have many dependencies will this have a
> >> > possibility of breakage or dependency issues?
> >>
> >> Yes. It is perfectly fine. Whatever update was done in version 2 is
> >> going to stay in 3 and 4 as well. Also updates do not usually affect
> >> the other packages depending on the one being updated. If it does
> >> indeed affect other packages, then such packages are updated as well.
> >> You should check the changelog to decide if an update is worth your
> >> bandwidth or not, specifically when package in question is a big one
> >> like OO.o or Firefox.
> >> Of course you should not ideally skip security updates. And in recent
> >> versions of Ubuntu you get popup every day if you have pending
> >> security updates.
> >>
> >>
> >> Onkar
> >>
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