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

[Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್)]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Narendra Diwate
<narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Try not to avoid Security Updates if you are a decent Internet User
(If not also)...
They are worth more than your Bandwidth...

Also there is some configuration in "gconf-editor" through which you
will be able to control when those updates should be notified



> 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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