RavenLX <rave...@sitesplace.net> wrote: > I have 8.7 on my system and read that 8.8 is now available. I did an > update yesterday (I prefer to do this at the command line). I'm still > at 8.7, so after the announcement I did another update. I got no > updates. (sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > showed no updates available).
> Does it take awhile for the updates to get to the mirrors? Yes. > Or do I already have them? I thought if I had them then > /etc/debian_version would show 8.8 but it doesn't. It still says 8.7. You will have all security updates, if you stood on top of them. There will be some non-security related updates, including a new version of base-files containing /etc/debian_version, once the mirrors have all been updated. Be patient, young padawan! Eagerness the path to the dark side it is. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
