Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?"
On Wednesday, October 21, 2020 02:03:26 PM David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 21 Oct 2020 at 09:40:37 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Ma, 20 oct 20, 10:44:17, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I agree, for an additional reason -- iiuc, if you are using an older
> > > version of Debian, dist-upgrade will attempt to upgrade to the current
> > > version, which could cause problems.
>
> What do you mean by "older" and "current"? There's no reason to
> suppose that sources.list has been touched. Perhaps the "dist-"
> prefix is confusing¹, and makes you think there's a release
> change involved. But one of the virtues of the apt-get command
> line is its stability, hence its recommendation for scripting,
> so that's unlikely to change.
I was thinking it could do something like (attempting to) migrate a system
from, for example, Jessie to Buster ...
> Are you not just compounding rhkramer's confusion?
Ahh yes, thanks for straightening me out, I was confused!
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