16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
2:07 p.m.
On Wednesday 16 of September 2020 19:39:11 Michael via tde-users wrote:
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.
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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
--
Slávek
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that it will spontaneously upgrade to a newer version of the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" :)