Well I am a decent Internet user and would like to keep my system updated. <br><br>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.<br>
<br clear="all">Regards<br><br>Narendra Diwate<br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/3 Mallikarjun <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mallik.v.arjun@gmail.com">mallik.v.arjun@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Narendra Diwate<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:narendra.diwate@gmail.com">narendra.diwate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> Thats exactly the issue. The update manager pops up every day and shows me<br>
> 70MB of updates available. The updates are just minor version updates like<br>
> 1.0.0.1 from 1.0.0.0 and it does not seem worth the bandwidth especially<br>
> when i am on a limited data plan.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Try not to avoid Security Updates if you are a decent Internet User<br>
(If not also)...<br>
They are worth more than your Bandwidth...<br>
<br>
Also there is some configuration in "gconf-editor" through which you<br>
will be able to control when those updates should be notified<br>
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> Thank you all once again.<br>
> Regards<br>
><br>
> Narendra Diwate<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:27, Onkar Shinde <<a href="mailto:onkarshinde@gmail.com">onkarshinde@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Narendra Diwate<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:narendra.diwate@gmail.com">narendra.diwate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Hi<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Is it OK to skip/jump updates?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > What I mean is if i have a package version 1 and a few days later<br>
>> > version 2<br>
>> > is available, can i skip it and update directly when version 3 or 4 is<br>
>> > available? For packages that have many dependencies will this have a<br>
>> > possibility of breakage or dependency issues?<br>
>><br>
>> Yes. It is perfectly fine. Whatever update was done in version 2 is<br>
>> going to stay in 3 and 4 as well. Also updates do not usually affect<br>
>> the other packages depending on the one being updated. If it does<br>
>> indeed affect other packages, then such packages are updated as well.<br>
>> You should check the changelog to decide if an update is worth your<br>
>> bandwidth or not, specifically when package in question is a big one<br>
>> like OO.o or Firefox.<br>
>> Of course you should not ideally skip security updates. And in recent<br>
>> versions of Ubuntu you get popup every day if you have pending<br>
>> security updates.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Onkar<br>
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