> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 10:10:19 -0400 > From: fsmithred <fsmith...@gmail.com> > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [DNG] reportbug default bts > Message-ID: <ea48b39e-7a32-e773-dad3-3a05090bc...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On 05/13/2017 11:03 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sat, 13 May 2017 01:06:38 -1000 > > Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > >> Long before three weeks ago. I don't usually upgrade or > >> dist-upgrade unless there is some particular need. > >> Probably I'm not alone, even if that is not considered > >> best practice. > > > > I never dist-upgrade. From what I hear, it breaks things. If I feel the > > need to dist-upgrade, it's probably time to back up, reformat the > > disks, and clean-install a later version. > > > > SteveT > > > > I always do dist-upgrade on stable. The aptitude equivalent is > full-upgrade. For curiosity, I just did 'apt-get upgrade' on an > installation that hasn't been upgraded in a long time. Following that with > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' shows me that I would have missed getting > firefox-esr without dist-upgade. > > When I've compared upgrade to dist-upgrade (or aptitude safe-upgrade vs. > full-upgrade) in the past, they are usually the same in the stable > release. In Testing, it's good to do them separately to prevent breakage. > > fsmithred > > > > > ------------------------------
I did not think to do a dist-upgrade after moving to ascii. I just did upgrade. I just did a dist-upgrade and had more packages upgrade. So, thank you for this thread. Vernon
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