Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

Bob,

It was my understanding that dist-upgrade was only needed to resolve issues that couldn't be resolved by upgrade. I have moved from wheezy to jessie with a simple aptitude update and didn't need the dist-upgrade. If this is incorrect I would love to know cause I ran into some issues with my latest attempt and am still playing with it trying to resolve the issues.

Thank you

Shane

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> wrote:

A thread about dist-upgrade has me confused. In my experience I have only ever run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when I wanted to move from one release to the next, say, from squeeze to wheezy.

Similarly, if I wanted to insure I had the latest versions of packages already installed (and any/all security fixes) I have run 'apt-get update' followed immediately by 'apt-get upgrade.'

But the thread currently underway about dist-upgrade suggests that users are running it rather routinely, and not at all necessarily to move from one release to the next.

Can someone please point out what I am missing?

Thanks,

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