Re: Correct update instructions for security updates
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:52:35PM +0200, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> was heard to say:
> We usually recommend:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
>
> However, this doesn't work for the OpenSSH update because it adds a new
> dependency. Should we recommend dist-upgrade instead in such cases?
> Are there other corner cases where upgrade is not sufficient?
As far as I know, "apt-get upgrade" should work unless you need to
either install a new package or remove an old package. "dist-upgrade"
will indeed work to upgrade openssh; I don't think there's a better way
of handling this situation with apt-get.
Daniel
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