John Hasler: > Adam Wilson writes: >> You should be running dist-upgrades in stable. apt-get upgrade only >> gets new package versions, leaving out upgrades which require new >> packages, old packages to be removed, dependency changes, etc. >> dist-upgrade is necessary if you want all the latest updates. > > You do not need dist-upgrade in Stable. The only changes to Stable are > new versions of packages already in it.
I think there may be cases during point releases where this is not necessarily true. This is a pet peeve of mine, but I generally think we need to stop telling people things like "When running stable, use 'upgrade' and when running testing/unstable use 'dist-upgrade'". The general rule is "You have to use dist-upgrade if the upgrades require changing the set of installed packages". It is a simple sentence which is (by default)[1] always true. J. [1] Yes, I know, there is also APT::Get::Upgrade-Allow-New … -- Hell will have perfume. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://archive.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature