Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

[Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com>]

On 1/25/16, John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Francis Gerund writes:
>> sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>> I presume that's what you meant.  Is the answer yes, then? But if so,
>> wouldn't that only have to be done once, followed by periodically
>> doing:
>
>> sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
>
> No.  Testing is in the process of becoming the next release and therefor
> is subject at any time to the sort of changes that dist-upgrade is
> intended for.  Same is true of Unstable.
>
> What you want to do periodically is:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> apt-get -s dist-upgrade
> Look over what apt-get proposes to do.  If it looks ok,
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> --
> John Hasler
> jhasler@newsguy.com
> Elmwood, WI USA
>
>


Hi John.

Thanks for the info.  Sorry it took a while to reply;  I did the
dist-upgrade, and that took quite a while.

Per your advice, I did (after verifying entries in
/etc/apt/sources.list, of course):
(ad libbing a little)

sudo apt-get check
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade    (electricity and
networking can fail, you know)
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get check
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get check    (yes, I can be obsessive)

Seems to have worked okay so far.

Remember to repeat frequently.

Now I can have my fair share of the latest bugs.

Thanks!