Re: upgrade versus update.

2015-03-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:53 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: I get that dist-upgrade is the replacement of a distribution by the subsequent distribution. Replacement of wheezy by jessie for example. What is meant by upgrade? In many places it appears to be synonymous with update. For

Re: upgrade versus update.

2015-03-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:53:33 -0800 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: I get that dist-upgrade is the replacement of a distribution by the subsequent distribution. Replacement of wheezy by jessie for example. What is meant by upgrade? In many places it appears to be synonymous with update. For

Re: upgrade versus update.

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2015 16:53:33 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: I get that dist-upgrade is the replacement of a distribution by the subsequent distribution. No, this is wrong. It will only upgrade to the next version if you change your sources list to make it do so. It will just completely

upgrade versus update.

2015-03-06 Thread peter
I get that dist-upgrade is the replacement of a distribution by the subsequent distribution. Replacement of wheezy by jessie for example. What is meant by upgrade? In many places it appears to be synonymous with update. For example, googling site:debian.org update upgrade yields,

Re: upgrade versus update.

2015-03-06 Thread John Hasler
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[OT] Its vs it's [Was: Re: upgrade versus update.]

2015-03-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-03-06, pe...@easthope.ca pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Its[sic] purpose is to keep the computer current with the latest security (and other) updates automatically. The use of Its in the original is correct. It's not a mistake. ;-) -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: upgrade versus update.

2015-03-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Joe a écrit : 'Upgrade' using apt-get is equivalent to 'safe-upgrade' using aptitude, and it means replacing as many packages as possible with the latest versions without removing or installing packages other than those actually being replaced. 'Dist-upgrade' with apt-get, or

Re: [OT] Its vs it's [Was: Re: upgrade versus update.]

2015-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2015 20:06:00 Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-03-06, pe...@easthope.ca pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Its[sic] purpose is to keep the computer current with the latest security (and other) updates automatically. The use of Its in the original is correct. It's not a mistake. ;-) :-)