Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

[Nicholas Skaggs]

John, I update on occasion - no obsession about updating everyday or 
anything like that. When I do update, the important thing is to make 
sure the upgrade will go cleanly. Don't update if it's going to remove 
important packages, or do something undesirable. This is quite a rare 
occurrence (I haven't seen it yet this cycle), but it is possible. 
Things like not all the packages needed to update are in the archive at 
the time you update, etc, can case this. It's why daily builds also 
sometimes fail. That said, I do update via the command line, apt-get 
update, apt-get dist-upgrade.


Nicholas

On 01/31/2013 02:15 PM, John Kim wrote:
> Sanjeev Gutpa,
>
> So do you only run those two commands at different times throughout 
> the day? Are there any other commands to be aware of?
>
> How can I ensure that by running those two commands, I get the daily 
> build from the uk.archive.ubuntu.com archive? Because by default, mine 
> is set to us.archive.ubuntu.com.
>
> Thanks.
>
> John Kim
>
> On ?, 1? 31, 2013 at 10:18 ??, Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:57 AM, John Kim <johnkim.ubuntu at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:johnkim.ubuntu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     I was thinking just doing:
>>
>>         $ sudo apt-get update
>>
>>         $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>>
>>     at around noon in my timezone daily is the only sequence.  Can I
>>     be missing something?
>>
>>
>> I have been doing this since 11.10, staying with daily updates to 
>> Ubuntu+1.
>>
>> Two observations:
>>
>>  1. I see updates throughout the day, not just noon. Sometimes I see
>>     updates three or more times in a workday.
>>  2. Using uk.archive.ubuntu.com <http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com> ,
>>     seems to have updates a few hours faster.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Sanjeev Gupta
>> +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane
>>
>>
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