Questions about OS updates

[John Toliver]

yes I had to as when I upgraded to Hardy, it automatically updated my
installation of openoffice which for the database I was working on at
the time, depended on something broken in 2.4.1(what shipped with
Hardy) so I decided I was going to downgrade back to 2.3.1 until they
fixed it and I thought adding my old gutsy sources again would let me
do that.  I was trying to stay away from the 'non-ubuntu ified'
releases of openoofice.

Thanks for the response though.  I just wanted to know if something
was really misconfigured.  I guess on can comment out those sources
now anyway.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:11, Leonard Chatagnier
<lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> --- John Toliver <john.toliver at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been out of the loop for a while as I'm in
>> nursing school.  I set
>> my automatic updates on my Hardy install to auto
>> download about once
>> every two weeks.  Each time I do, I notice I have a
>> new kernel, new
>> updates usually for firefox, evolution, openoffice,
>> samba, and a host
>> of other smaller support apps.  I'm worried that in
>> my configuring
>> Hardy in the past, or some other issues I've had I
>> might have an
>> improper sources.list file or something like that.
>> The reason I feel
>> this way is that I don't ever remember getting THIS
>> many updates in
>> Gutsy or in Feisty before it.  Here is what my
>> sources.list file looks
>> like: (I've removed a lot of the stuff with "#" in
>> front of it and
>> only show the actual sources):
>>
>> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy
>> partner
>> deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy
>> partner
>> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy
>> multiverse
>> deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
>> gutsy-updates main restricted
>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
>> gutsy-security main restricted
>> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main
>> universe restricted multiverse
>> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main
>> universe
>> restricted multiverse #Added by software-properties
>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
>> hardy-security universe main
>> multiverse restricted
>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
>> hardy-security universe
>> main multiverse restricted
>> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates
>> universe main
>> multiverse restricted
>> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
>> hardy-updates universe main
>> multiverse restricted
>>
>> If this isn't a problem, and my sources.list is
>> configured, more or
>> less the way it's supposed to  then that means all
>> these updates are
>> legitimately for Hardy.  In that case I subscribe to
>> the newsletter
>> but the updates don't seem descriptive enough to
>> figure out what they
>> do.
>>
>> My questions are:
>> 1. How else might I discover the purpose of the
>> update?  What is going
>> on that warrants a new kernel update every 2 weeks
>> or a month tops(I
>> understand if that is too open-ended a question to
>> answer).
>>
>> 2. Last question: Should I hold on to all the old
>> ones, or when can I
>> determine it's safe to remove them?
>> --
> I don't know the answers to all your questions but I
> think you should check the mirrors and decide if you
> want the hardy or gutsy distros.  You have both in
> your sources list above.
>
>> Patience yields far greater results than brute force
>> or rage ever
>> could so relax......it's just life !!!
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Patience yields far greater results than brute force or rage ever
could so relax......it's just life !!!