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How many here were affected by by the broken Xserver update?
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:45 pm
by greggh
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241254
It looks like it affected most ubuntu users who did the update. The shocking thing is that from what I read on the forum it looks like the update was tested by one guy on what he claims were a few machines, and then he pushed to the official repos. That's one hell of a package quality assurance system they have there.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:50 pm
by Patrick
I did not update and was not affected by it.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:58 pm
by Patrick
After running Arch for a bit I had my share of breakages caused by bleeding edge packages. As a result my upgrade mania has calmed down quite a bit since then.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:37 am
by Gomer_X
I run Fedora, a distro which tests important updates before releasing them into the wild.
I was not affected.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:42 am
by Patrick
Gomer_X wrote:I run Fedora, a distro which tests important updates before releasing them into the wild.
I was not affected.
Hopefully Fedora will give Yum a kick in the ass in the speed column. Apt-get is super fast and there's nothing like getting broken packages in a hurry!
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:58 am
by Wally Balljacker
Not affected over here!
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:06 am
by Gomer_X
Patrick wrote:
Hopefully Fedora will give Yum a kick in the ass in the speed column. Apt-get is super fast and there's nothing like getting broken packages in a hurry!
Unfortunately "super fast" means nothing. I'd be interested in some actual numbers to compare with because I don't find yum that slow (especially since they switched to running from cache, rather than downloading headers every time).
I do know that someone is rewriting parts in C to speed up some of the processing intensive stuff.
There is also a "fastest mirror" plugin that pings the mirror list and selects the fastest for your location.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:29 am
by Patrick
Gomer_X wrote:
Unfortunately "super fast" means nothing. I'd be interested in some actual numbers to compare with because I don't find yum that slow (especially since they switched to running from cache, rather than downloading headers every time).
I know the Fedora guys are aware of the speed issues of yum. You've previously made us aware of the workarounds to this. I just couldn't resist busting.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:18 pm
by yeti
i got the broken update and then the fixed update today, but no reboots from me in between so no problems encountered
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:21 am
by Gomer_X
Patrick wrote:
I know the Fedora guys are aware of the speed issues of yum. You've previously made us aware of the workarounds to this. I just couldn't resist busting.
Well, you gotta take the shtos where you can.
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:05 am
by DaveQB
yeti wrote:i got the broken update and then the fixed update today, but no reboots from me in between so no problems encountered
I have only seen one Xorg update and applied it. Havent reboot my Desktop for a month here nor restarted X so haven't had any problems.
No updates since; but maybe I only got the fixed package.
PS just checked and I have 10.4, the "good" version.
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:58 am
by no1important
Not I, But I run Kubuntu and after reading it I was concerned it may of effected Kubuntu but it did not.
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:19 pm
by platypus_low
Patrick wrote:Gomer_X wrote:I run Fedora, a distro which tests important updates before releasing them into the wild.
I was not affected.
Hopefully Fedora will give Yum a kick in the ass in the speed column. Apt-get is super fast and there's nothing like getting broken packages in a hurry!
I think I will go nuts if i read anymore of this bitchin' about yum speed ... especially since there is an alternative out there ... Please just
Run smart on fedora !!