Re: KDE Frameworks 5.25: Be careful with dist-upgrade
Am Freitag, 19. August 2016, 14:27:05 CEST schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Am Freitag, 19. August 2016, 14:09:59 CEST schrieb Diederik de Haas:
> > On vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:19:23 CEST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > You most definately do not like this, so watch out carefully on
> > > dist-upgrade.
> > > ...
> > > From what I gathered from aptitude its just the state of a partially
> > > uploaded KF5 5.25 in unstable, so waiting seems to be the best option.
> > > However, I will try with a partial upgrade, instead of dist-upgrade.
> > > Okay,
> > > and this holds almost all of KF 5.25 back.
> >
> > It always surprises me that ppl use dist-upgrade/full-upgrade by default.
> > There seems to be some 'rule' that when on sid you should do a
> > dist-upgrade, but I never understood why.
>
> Well for some time I used upgrade, then dist-upgrade, but often that was
> two steps instead of one, as a dist-upgrade would just have been fine, so
> I reversed it. I try dist-upgrade and carefully check what it would do…
> just this one time I didn´t. I think the output was too large and the
> removes were already out of the screen completely. I usually start the
> dist-upgrade and then head elsewhere, then look back to look at the
> solution apt proposes. Today I just didn´t scroll back.
Its similar to unconsciously locking the car and then wondering whether I
really locked it.
--
Martin
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