[lug] Any experience with sidux?

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Davide Del Vento
<davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> 5. There are lots uf updates, and you need to upgrade frequently.
>> Waiting longer than 2 months to do a dist-upgrade may also result in a
>> broken system. I've always updated at l
>> east bi-weekly, and there are usually 200+ packages ready for update.
>
> Do you mean twice a week or once every two weeks? I'm even ok to
> update daily, especially if I can set up a shutdown script for that (I
> always turn the thing off in the night). From what I'm hearing I will
> not install sidux on a machine that I use about once a month, at least
> not until I'll be very familiar with it.
>

I update weekly or every 2 weeks. Once a month is also an acceptable
time frame. Once every two months is the absolute limit recommended by
the developers. Interestingly enough, some of the developers recommend
sidux to customers who never update, but then reinstall much later on.

>> 10. The sidux developers are a quirky bunch. One of the original
>> developers produce (and still maintains)an excellent system upgrade
>> tool called smxi that many users like myself use to perform the
>> dist-upgrade process.
>
> I've heard about smxi and I was wondering.... Too bad that they quarreled.
>
>> That's about it. You try it, you like it. Always check the forum for
>> warnings before doing a dist-upgrade (manually or with smxi). The core
>> users usually find the bugs and raise an alarm if anything is broken.
>
> I've read somewhere that if anything is broken is pretty easy to roll
> back to pre-update status (I assume that's true if the new thing
> didn't corrupt your config files, of course, which one should put
> under revision control, but it's seldom done). Do you have any
> experience with that?
>

I'm not aware of any standard rollback procedure.

Good luck with your sidux machine.


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Collins Richey
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