Mostafa Shahverdy wrote: > Few while ago I tried upgrading to unstable and I could update all my > packages successfully. Now I'm going to use stable version. I am following > only stable repository and each time I hit `apt-get dist-upgrade` it > successfully upgrades few packages. > > Is this a safe way to stick with stable? >
It is not exactly clear what "while ago" means. For example if you were using unstable=stretch when stable=jessie and then switched to stable, when stable=stretch it sounds reasonable. If it is not the case, which is not very likely as you still get updates, the versions of the packages will be higher than the one available in the repository, so it is strange that you even get updates. I would not expect such to be offered. We usually do for regular updating apt-get update apt-get upgrade not dist-upgrade With stable doing so you can be 99.99999% sure that it will work. At least from my experience from the past 10+y. Note however that if you work on production environment in case libc and friends get updated reboot or restart of services is required to load newer libc ... You've got the response by Joe, where is explained what the purpose of stable is. regards
