On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Narendra Diwate <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Narendra Diwate >> <[email protected]> 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 >> >> -- >> ubuntu-in mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
