Gnugpg

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:44:10 +0000
C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:

> I was afraid you were going to ask that...!  The answer is an unqualified 
> 'No!'  The emphasis comes from the fact that, aside from Mandrake 9, every 
> last distro I upgraded --read, SuSE 8.2, 9 Pro, 9.1, 9.2, Gentoo-- all were 
> virtually unusable post-updating.  Lots of stuff broke and I finally gave up 
> trying to fix what was not broken before I started doing the updates.  ...And 
> that update process took place before I did any customizing.  Consequently, 
> I'm loathe to break an otherwise-working distro.

That's unfortunate. I have used Warty, Hoary and Breezy and kept them up
to date with 

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

without any problems at all. Before that I ran Debian Woody and Sid, using
the same approach, again without problems.

Perhaps you should trust Ubuntu more than you seem to?

Not updating means you are vulnerable to security issues, and missing out
on possible bug fixes. I use only main, universe and multiverse
repositories, and have had no problems. Third party repositories are of
course a different matter.

Peter

-- 
'If I ever saw an animated penguin with a speech bubble saying, 
"It looks like you're trying to edit fstab", 
I'd switch to BSD faster than a speeding Gentoo user.'
-- Paul Hudson