How many here were affected by by the broken Xserver update?

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:45 pm

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.

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:50 pm

I did not update and was not affected by it.

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:58 pm

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.

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:37 am

I run Fedora, a distro which tests important updates before releasing them into the wild.

I was not affected.

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:42 am

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!

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:58 am

Not affected over here!

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:06 am

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.

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:29 am

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.

yeti · Post by **yeti** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:18 pm

i got the broken update and then the fixed update today, but no reboots from me in between so no problems encountered

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:21 am

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.

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:05 am

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.

no1important · Post by **no1important** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:58 am

Not I, But I run Kubuntu and after reading it I was concerned it may of effected Kubuntu but it did not.

platypus_low · Post by **platypus_low** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:19 pm

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 !!