Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?
On Sun 08 Mar 2015 at 00:58:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > The Wheezy point releases have no BIND9 updates so, without searching
> > further, I am unable to check that new libraries were installed. Even
> > if they were they would be from stable, which is ok.
>
> This was a recent BIND9 upgrade in Wheezy on 18 Feb 2015.
>
> https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3162
>
> The BIND package is actually a combined set of libraries plus
> executables. They don't have a stable API. Therefore the entire
> bundle always needs to be updated. The libraries have the version
> number encoded in the name. Therefore it requires dist-upgrade in
> order to handle installing bind security releases.
Thank you for the explanation. It requires very little effort to extend
separate upgrade and dist-upgrade steps to stable so I for one will
strongly consider moving in that direction.
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
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