Re: new packages

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.

  not to worry, only one person uses this system
and i never do unattended upgrades (running testing 
or unstable at times).

  when i ran a production system there was a whole
series of things needed to take the system down and
up again.  when people today complain that the system
takes a few seconds longer to boot i mention that
ours took 12hrs (or longer).


  songbird