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People on rolling releases, how often do you update your packages?
Nov 20 at 12:17pmWeb
Show threadJASN_DENov 20
Daily usually.
Show threadartimanNov 20
every 7 days
Show threadBlazeNov 20
That’s what I’m doing as well, seems like a good compromise.
Show threadtreadfulNov 20
Or if I hear about a security update.
Show threadnescNov 20
Every week or two, or month, or two. 🙃
Show threadbanazirNov 20
I usually run updates every night before I shut down my computer. Probably in part a leftover from the time I used Gentoo and I’d leave my computer on over night compiling updates. I’m not saying this is the optimal way, it just feels right for me.
Show threadMyNameIsRichardNov 20
Every day. There’s no point being an a bleeding edge distro if you’re not riding the edge 🤣
Show threadtreadfulNov 20
The horror of rebooting every day.
Show threadxePBMg9Nov 20
I update every day. Things rarely go wrong. When they do, it’s fixing time, which I kinda enjoy. Only when I know that I really need the computer to work at next boot, will I delay updating.
Show threadtreadfulNov 20
It’s not about worrying something will go wrong at boot, it’s just about the annoyance of losing my session.
Show threadGhoelianNov 20
I shut everything down at the end of the day. Takes <30 seconds to boot up so it’s not really an issue
Show threadryannathansNov 20
The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it’ll work
Show threadcorsicanguppyNov 21

The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it’ll work

I’ve been patching and bouncing hundreds of machines automatically. The first decade, I was concerned and then observant. It’s been so reliable that I just stopped being concerned for the second decade. The last 5 years have been very occasionally (1%) unreliable, thanks to Lennart’s cancer, but not enough that I need to give it more than a glance. EL10 is a bit of a shitshow, so maybe the slow trend since el7 is continuing.

Show threadGhoelianNov 21
Ahh, fair. I’ve been running a fedora atomic distro for a while so that’s not really somebing I worry about anymore.
Show threadcorsicanguppyNov 21

Every day.

The horror of rebooting every day.

Linux doesn’t need reboots for regular stuff. Proper packages can update everything from sendmail to syslog and not need a bounce.

The only time you need a bounce is

  • the kernel, but with tech since 2001 that’s not even required immediately
  • if you glance funny at dbus or systemd

That’s almost it.

Show threadtreadfulNov 21
Kernel updates constantly on my distro. And with all the other various library and service updates it’s usually simpler to just reboot than restart everything individually everything anyway. So 9 times out of 10 I’m rebooting on an update.
Show threadMyNameIsRichardNov 21
It takes about ten seconds. Thirty or so if you include all my running programs restarting
Show threadinfinitevalenceNov 20
Generally as I get a notification that packages are available. The exception is probably if there’s a new kernel and I don’t feel like rebooting.
Show threadZeStigNov 20
Every day (NixOS unstable)
Show threadBjörnNov 20
Every day by cronjob.
Show threadFishFaceNov 20
Infrequently (when I remember)
Show threadAxle182Nov 20
When I remember, or when something breaks
Show threadFeydNov 20
Every week or so
Show threadTurboWafflzNov 20
Whenever I’m bored and can’t think of anything else to do
Show threadFreakazoidNov 20
Once a week
Show threadcommunismNov 20
Daily, or on machines I don’t use daily, every time I boot into it
Show threadBurgerBaronNov 20

Once a week and only when I have time to potentially fix something that breaks. Usually because of something I did. Nobody told me I’d have to deal with config file changes in etc. Pacnew in my case. Had to discover that on my own.

Using diff with meld makes it pretty simple. I missed a line in one file recently and SDDM stopped automatically starting on boot. Growing pains. Plus I threw myself in the deep end to learn faster with a rolling release but that’s just how I operate.

Part of me welcomes breakage because that’s how I got gud at bending Windows to my will as a kid.

Exceptions of course if there’s a new feature I want to try out ASAP.

Show threadatro_cityNov 20
Counter-question: how do linux releases roll?
Show threadmmmmNov 20
I update Portage almost daily but do the actual package updating kind of every week - it depends on how many packages are (or how big they are) to be updated
Show threadsgaNov 21
twice or thrice a day. i have seen problems happening if you wait more than week (signatures not matching and stuff). Also I have a mostly automated setup (essentially sudo password read from password manager into std input of sudo -S sh -c “yes | pacman -Syu “, yes command will update the packages.) since i manually trigger it, if i know i do not have internet or not in a situation to deal with it in case something goes wrong (last happened more than 2 years ago), then i do not. I also see the command’s output which lists all packages updated, so if there is something that requires reboot, i will reboot soon.
Show threadVeraxisNov 21
Every few days on the machines I use daily, but I have a couple spare laptops which I only use infrequently, and I usually don’t run into any major problems when I have to make a big set of updates on a machine I am using for the first time in a while.
Show threadspacemanspiffyNov 21

When I think of it. Every few days on average, sometimes weeks though.

I’ve blindly updated a year+ old Arch install without introducing problems. Not saying they don’t ever happen, but it isn’t that common.

Show threadFizzNov 21
Weekly, just before the weekend so if there is any problems I can spend my weekend looking into it