On 05/13/2017 11:03 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 13 May 2017 01:06:38 -1000 > Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Long before three weeks ago. I don't usually upgrade or >> dist-upgrade unless there is some particular need. >> Probably I'm not alone, even if that is not considered >> best practice. > > I never dist-upgrade. From what I hear, it breaks things. If I feel the > need to dist-upgrade, it's probably time to back up, reformat the > disks, and clean-install a later version. > > SteveT >
I always do dist-upgrade on stable. The aptitude equivalent is full-upgrade. For curiosity, I just did 'apt-get upgrade' on an installation that hasn't been upgraded in a long time. Following that with 'apt-get dist-upgrade' shows me that I would have missed getting firefox-esr without dist-upgade. When I've compared upgrade to dist-upgrade (or aptitude safe-upgrade vs. full-upgrade) in the past, they are usually the same in the stable release. In Testing, it's good to do them separately to prevent breakage. fsmithred _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
