[R-sig-Debian] r-cran-rgdal: dependency on libgdal1 unsatisfied in ubuntu 12.04?

[Matt Dowle]

On 27/09/14 21:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 27 September 2014 at 21:04, Matt Dowle wrote:
> | On 27/09/14 20:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | The fear may be that a fresh install will be needed (a pain) as
>
> But Matt, I never said or implied "fresh install". My exact words, from two
> emails ago:
>
>     "I would upgrade, which I do every six months."
>
> Upgrade, not "reinstall".
>
> | might not work.  That's why I switched to a rolling release (LMDE) so
>
> Rolling releases rock. Debian pretty much invented this with "testing" which
> is a rolling release receiving packages from the top (aka "unstable") if
> (approximatly) no new upload was made, no critical bugs appeared and it is
> not blocking another packages dependency graph.  So in essence "always ten
> days fresh" (as eg for my R builds).  That rocks, and it is getting more
> recognition now.
>
> | I'll never need to upgrade and reinstall and setup all the software I
> | need and config again.  So they tell me.   I'll tell you if it's true in
> | a few years!   My /home is mounted on its own partition, so that's not a
> | pain (but is for users who don't know how to use gparted to do that),
> | but even then I fear problems if I point a new release to my single
> | /home and then need to roll back (the new release may have changed files
> | in ~).
> | Do you do a fresh install every 6 months or do you upgrade your existing?
>
> For one reason or another the majority of my machines (at home and work) are
> actually running Ubuntu.
>
> And I __always__ updated __all of them__ every six months __whenever a new
> release comes out__.  Some of these may now have had over ten upgrades. No
> issues.  I tend to do the auxiliary machines at home first, then my main
> laptop, then the server and then the machines at work.
>
> It. just. works.
>
> And is the least amount of work as far as I can tell.
>
> Dirk
>
Very interesting. Ok, yep, Matthieu really has no excuse for not 
upgrading then.

Matt