Re: new packages
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:42:20PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> when you run:
>
> $ apt-get upgrade
>
> it will not add any new programs, but when you run:
>
> $ apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> it will tell you which are new of the updates it is
> going to perform (if any).
I strongly recommend using the half-documented -u option here:
apt-get -u upgrade
It's not in the man page, but it IS in the "apt-get -h" output.
That way you'll have some warning of which services are going to be
affected. If, for example, you see that your database server is
going to be upgraded, and you know that this will impact your users,
you may want to wait until a less busy time to do the upgrade, and
shut down your database-client application(s), etc.
This is also one of the reasons why unattended upgrades are not on
by default.
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