Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

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On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +0000, andy wrote:
Hi all

Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem
to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this:

after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally
considered a wise thing to reboot the computer to check the take or can
one have a reasonably good degree of confidence that as far as is
reasonable to predict, all will be well?

depends on what gets upgraded (you *do* review the upgrades,
right?). If you've got some new core thing (kernel, xorg, udev, etc.)

xorg is only core to people who still (*even* if they don't realize
it) think that Real Operating Systems are designed the same way that
MS Windows is designed.

Your penance is to make a pilgrimage to Portland and walk up Linus'
driveway on your knees, while reading the Green Dragon Book.

then I'd make sure to review the changelogs to see what's up. For
example, recent xorg updates have been translations -- no biggie. But
if it was something core to the functioning of xorg, a reboot (or
restart of X) might be in order. Likewise with a kernel update.

Sure you've got to restart X. But that's beyond trivial if you log
in via the console.

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