On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > > > > > Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie > > > RC1 is it. > > > > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the > > equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change quickly > > and sometimes majorly on the path to Stable. You'll want to get > > ALL those changes -- minor and major. "Upgrade" won't do that. This > > is recommended by Debian. Once Jessie is Stable, revert to > > "upgrade" for the most part. > > I agree with everything but the final sentence. Stable is unlikely to > pull in any new packages but if it does you will likely need them. > In other words, 'dist-upgrade' should be the norm for stable.
It depends on whether you want an "unchanging" system -- what "Stable" means in Debian-speak -- as opposed to less prone to crash. Upgrade only brings in bug and security fixes for what's installed. Only necessary changes. Dist-upgrade brings in that plus more extensive changes. In my experience with Wheezy after it went Stable, I've only needed dist-upgrade, maybe, 3 or 4 times, and that's solely due to a couple apps from backports. If you only use upgrade and something needs a major "fix" that only dist-upgrade can handle, you're notified during the update part. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150306213758.71042...@debian7.boseck208.net