Re: how do I upgrade while I sleep?

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:01:20PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hi folks. How do I upgrade while I sleep? Or, more specifically, how
do I set it up so that all the questions about scripts that have been
changed, which are different from the package maintainers scripts,
asking if it should keep the current version, or install the new one,
blah blah blah.... the default is ...
Hell, what do I know? I'm a desktop user who's too cheap to buy
Windows; so, I go with Linux (I am going to donate some cash SPI,
however). So I always choose the default answer. How can I set up my
upgrade from Sarge to Etch, to run while I'm sleeping, without it asking
me stupid questions that I don't give a *** about? Just have it
upgrade, and not bother me, fer Christ's sake. Aw, then I can just
sleep. Blissful sleep.

Don't. Sarge is fine for most purposes. Why would someone uninterested in
learning administration want to upgrade from a stable system to something
less stable?

Also, is Etch now sane? Last time I tried an upgrade, it gave me all
this crap about the new udev requiring a new kernel, but I couldn't
install the new kernel, because it required the new udev (I'm sure the
obvious catch-22 was a practical joke played by some *** -- I can't
imagine anyone actually making such a blatantly obvious, inane error
honestly).

I repeat: don't use Etch. I isn't meant for desktop users, it's for
"testing" new software before its formal release.
--
Carl Fink carl@xxxxxxx
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your
government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain


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