Steve Sobol wrote: >>>> In general people don't want to dist-upgrade automatically. >>> >>> Seconded. >> >> I'm not following, when these functions are invoked, be it >> scheduled by some other software or by the user from the >> shell, they are intended to do their work automatically >> (non-interactively) if that is what you mean? > > Dist-upgrade makes major changes to your system, updating > dozens of packages, and pointing the OS at different > APT repos.
Well, not always, right? But yes, that's the intension. > Automating such changes would be a very bad idea. [...] But > if I have to do an in-place upgrade, I'm going to sit and > watch it happen... just in case something goes wrong. Ah, don't worry, it is safe, I've done it a lot. But actually even if something goes wrong, it is still a good idea since then it is the upgrade process that must be debugged at the other end, the command is fine. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
