On Wednesday 16 of September 2020 19:39:11 Michael via tde-users wrote:
On Wednesday 16 September 2020 11:54:52 am Slávek Banko via tde-users
wrote:
On Wednesday 16 of September 2020 18:32:34 Uwe Brauer via tde-users
wrote:
Should it
apt-get upgrade not dist-upgrade
As I have mentioned many times, using "dist-upgrade" does not mean that it will spontaneously upgrade to a newer version of the distribution. It always depends on what distribution name you have written in apt sources lists. If you do not change the distribution name in the apt sources list yourself, the new version of the distribution will not be installed.
Using "dist-upgrade" means that new packages (such as new dependencies) can be installed during the update. While using "update" makes it impossible to update packages that require the installation of new dependencies.
So yes, I really meant "dist-upgrade" :)
For me this has always been one of the most annoying parts of using Debian, apt based, derivatives. The command literally says it’s going to do a distribution upgrade. Users are justifiably not going to use it, period, until some dev, that they have to trust implicitly like we do Slávek, beats it into their heads that it is a completely and utterly misnamed command. *
Thanks Slávek for being patient with us.
Best Regards, Michael
- I’m sure there’s some original reason for the naming architecture of
this command. Which does not change that from a user’s perspective the naming of this command is really, really fubar. ____________________________________________________
If I remember correctly, for aptitude, "soft-upgrade" was added as the equivalent for "upgrade" and "full-upgrade" was added as the equivalent for "dist-upgrade". Maybe the point was to make the meaning more apt.
Cheers