update emails & files out of sync?

[Martin]

I guess there are two schools of thought on this.

If you automatically update without seeing why (ie
reading the email), you run the small risk of breaking
something.  Kernel updates, particularly.  

On the other hand, if you wait to read what it is that
you're updating, you risk being exposed to some
network evil.

All in all, I'd rather see the announcements coming
out as soon as the update files are in the pipeline,
with the explanation that the updates will be showing
up on your favorite mirror RSN. Sitting on the info is
playing Big Brother.  It is going to cause problems
somewhere sometime.

-Martin


--- John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
wrote:

> On Friday 03 December 2004 10:23, Martin wrote:
> > I am curious why the email announcements of Fedora
> > updates come to me on Fedora-announce-list _after_
> the
> > updates show up on the mirror servers - often a
> day or
> > more, it seems.
> 
> How would you feel if the announcement came but you
> couldn't get the updates?
> 
> On Debian I tend not to worry to much about the
> announcement; on machines that 
> matter I
>  apt-get update
>  apt-get -yud upgrade
> daily and watch that mail. On taroon (RHEL 3 beta) I
> was on broadband and did 
> that same sort of thing with up2date.
> 
> I upgrade pretty much automatically, but I like to
> see what's happening.
> 
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> Cheers
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