[ILUG] Version Updating is it Necessary?

[Conor Wynne]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 21:00, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > I use apt-get on fedora core 1, and it goes like this:
> > (cronjob)
> > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
> 
> You run dist-upgrade from cron? Brave.. (i run upgrade from cron and 
> a few people, particularly on #linux, consider /me/ "brave" (i'm sure 
> that's the word they use) ;) )

Was being a bit lazy, should've checked the man page (thanks Liam).
Changing to "upgrade" now.

It also explains why my DNS got borked (then wsftpd), I'll fix them some
day as it works fine without them. 

> > I am told that dist-upgrade upgrades your distro, however, 
> > /etc/redhat-release reports "Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)"
> 
> You need to edit your sources to point at the newer release.

Ah Yes, I remembered that one after posting. :)

> And you really dont want to upgrade your distro from cron...

You are probably right :)
Thanks all. 

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