16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
10:39 a.m.
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:
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.
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will spontaneously upgrade to a newer version of the distribution.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" :)