[ubuntu-in] Is it OK to jump updates?

[Narendra Diwate]

Thats exactly the issue. The update manager pops up every day and shows me
70MB of updates available. The updates are just minor version updates like
1.0.0.1 from 1.0.0.0 and it does not seem worth the bandwidth especially
when i am on a limited data plan.

Thank you all once again.
Regards

Narendra Diwate




On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:27, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Narendra Diwate
> <narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is it OK to skip/jump updates?
> >
> > What I mean is if i have a package version 1 and a few days later version
> 2
> > is available, can i skip it and update directly when version 3 or 4 is
> > available? For packages that have many dependencies will this have a
> > possibility of breakage or dependency issues?
>
> Yes. It is perfectly fine. Whatever update was done in version 2 is
> going to stay in 3 and 4 as well. Also updates do not usually affect
> the other packages depending on the one being updated. If it does
> indeed affect other packages, then such packages are updated as well.
> You should check the changelog to decide if an update is worth your
> bandwidth or not, specifically when package in question is a big one
> like OO.o or Firefox.
> Of course you should not ideally skip security updates. And in recent
> versions of Ubuntu you get popup every day if you have pending
> security updates.
>
>
> Onkar
>
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