Final release today?

Daniel Stone daniel.stone at canonical.com
Wed Oct 20 11:18:47 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:41:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:29:18AM +0100, Darren Wheatley wrote:
> > If so, do I simply run "apt-get dist-upgrade", and can I do this from within
> > X?
> 
> Yes, but upgrading X from within X can be risky.

The only time it will get risky is when we dump Xorg in, at which point
we change API massively (not to mention ABI), change filesystem
locations up the hizzle, et al.  Otherwise, it should be fine.  The only
app I've really had problems with when upgrading is Firefox.

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Daniel Stone                                        <daniel.stone at canonical.com>
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