[svlug] Report From LinuxWorld

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:33:01 -0400 (EDT) 
John Donagher <john at webmeta.com> wrote:

> In most of my debian experience (about 5 installs), this has been
> the case, however, in one case, the dist-upgrade failed
> mid-process leaving me with a non-functioning Perl installation,
> which means apt-get stopped working. Ouch!

Yeah, its happened to me twice (both times while following
unstable).  That's pretty par for the course however when following
unstable -- you're pre-admitting that you are willing to bite such
bullets.

I've yet to see this happen in the normal case (ie stable), tho I
recall a message to debian-news from Joey Hess a couple years ago
during the perl 5.004 migration (?!?) that cought a few folks in
stable unawares.

> Anyway, the fact that apt-get works at all is amazing to me, so I
> don't mind the occasional bug.

apt-get is very pleasant.

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