Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?
On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie
> > > RC1 is it.
> >
> > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the
> > equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change quickly
> > and sometimes majorly on the path to Stable. You'll want to get
> > ALL those changes -- minor and major. "Upgrade" won't do that. This
> > is recommended by Debian. Once Jessie is Stable, revert to
> > "upgrade" for the most part.
>
> I agree with everything but the final sentence. Stable is unlikely to
> pull in any new packages but if it does you will likely need them.
> In other words, 'dist-upgrade' should be the norm for stable.
It depends on whether you want an "unchanging" system -- what "Stable"
means in Debian-speak -- as opposed to less prone to crash. Upgrade
only brings in bug and security fixes for what's installed. Only
necessary changes. Dist-upgrade brings in that plus more extensive
changes.
In my experience with Wheezy after it went Stable, I've only needed
dist-upgrade, maybe, 3 or 4 times, and that's solely due to a couple
apps from backports. If you only use upgrade and something needs a
major "fix" that only dist-upgrade can handle, you're notified during
the update part.
B
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