Re: How automatic are backport package updates?
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:03:54AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> In my experience 'apt upgrade' is sufficient for most (1 in 10 or even
> more) upgrades, even on unstable.
I think you made a typo somewhere in there.
> Only when APT mentions packages being kept on hold it is necessary to
> *try* 'apt full-upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
Do note that "apt upgrade" includes the option to install new packages
if necessary, whereas "apt-get upgrade" does not. This is an important
difference between the two.
You can get that behavior from apt-get by adding the --with-new-pkgs
option, but it's hard to remember and hard to type. I suspect most
apt-get users just bump it up to "apt-get dist-upgrade" whenever there's
a new kernel ABI or whatever.
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