Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?
On Mon, Mar 09 2015,Brian wrote:
> On Sun 08 Mar 2015 at 00:58:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
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> But what do we think about this as a procedure? [1]
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get -y upgrade
> aptitude -y upgrade
> apt-get -y dist-upgrade
> aptitude -y dist-upgrade
> apt-get -y autoremove
>
> When asked about it the response was [1]:
>
> First apt-get upgrade does the easy upgrades.
> Then aptitude upgrade does the slightly harder upgrades (new packages).
> Then apt-get dist-upgrade does the easy dist-upgrades.
> Then aptitude dist-upgrade does the harder dist-upgrades where manual
> intervention via the GUI might be needed.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780028
>
>
As someone who is a deb newbie following these posts, can the gurus
make up their collective minds and let forth the mantra invocation
that I need to invoke? ;)
I just want a tidy ship and all I want is the One True Directive(TM).
sivaram
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