[Mageia-discuss] mageiaupdate and the list of updates

Mon Jul 4 14:11:26 CEST 2011

On 07/04/2011 04:25 AM, Morgan Leijström wrote:
+> måndagen den 4 juli 2011 04.30.32 skrev  Duane Phinney:
+>
+>> Updates are not a suggestion,
+>> they are security updates, bug fixes, updates of applications that you
+>> have installed. It is not installing new programs on your computer.
+>
+> Updates do break things even if they technically should not.
+>
+> Yesterdays example: my bank refuse login after i updated firefox, saying it is
+> an unsupported browser.  Technically it is not and lucklily i have saved the
+> URL to step past the browser check, but my wife would have been locked out,
+> and * banking is a very important usage case *.
+> (and yes i have sent a bug report to the bank.)
+>
+My bank's site warned me about it, but they let it go through, 
+essentially saying, "If it doesn't work right it's not our fault." Same 
+thing when I used Chromium 11 and 12. But of course all worked just fine.
+
+> Two yers ago i have had problems with Parallels virtualiser that did not work
+> on kernels later than a certain update and they never fixed it despite repeated
+> promises.
+>
+I remember a kernel update for Mandriva broke things on some computers, 
+including mine, a few years ago. Badly, but I don't remember the details 
+now. Fortunately, Mandriva always left the old kernel intact, and I was 
+able to log on, remove the bad kernel and go on about my business. IIRC, 
+it took about a week for the Mandriva guys to fix the problem and issue 
+another update. I hope Mageia follows the same policy of retaining the 
+old kernel, just in case.
+
+TJ
+
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