Bugfix updates?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Are there any plans from Ubuntu to release bug fix updates, beside the 
> regular security updates?

I'm not quite sure what you mean; could you clarify? You can
upgrade any packages that need upgrading by doing

sudo apt-get update

to download the latest list of packages that have been
changed, then

sudo apt-get upgrade

to install all the available updates for every package you
have installed, or

sudo apt-get install [packageName]

to install any updates that are available for packageName.

To do this -- and get anything other than just security
updates -- you need to have a /etc/apt/sources.list file
with the right repositories in it. Mine is below. Make sure
yours contains repositories other than security-update ones.

> The Intel Wireless LAN driver would be such a candidate, actually the 
> version contained with Ubuntu is more offline than online and it crashes 
> the machine quite often. Not so with the latest version, which I 
> installed by hand.

Are you talking about the IPW2200 driver? Yes, I agree that
it needs to be updated, and I've been installing directly
from the source ipw2200.sf.net (they have an RSS feed so I
can be notified when the driver is updated). But if I'm not
mistaken, recent updates have been folded into the kernel.
Or were you talking about some other driver?

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
steve at laniels.org
+(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/
PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key