On Sun 02 Feb 2014 at 15:22:44 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> You hadn't specified "from squeeze to qheezy" and you were therefore
> implying that it was a general approach.
In my own mind I thought I was responding to the previous post:
At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my appro
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 12:52:05 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote:
>>> On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach
would b
On Sb, 25 ian 14, 15:25:18, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 20:51:46 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> > I think we are doing our best avoid complications but the canonical
> > place for the recommended way is the Release Notes. Nothing else.
> >
> > So as a baseline, process you described is fi
On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 20:51:46 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:25:01AM +, Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 11:54:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > > The recommended way is specific to each release and thoroughly
> > > documented in the Release Notes
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:25:01AM +, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 11:54:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > The recommended way is specific to each release and thoroughly
> > documented in the Release Notes.
>
> Which is where I got what I wrote from:
I bet it was only for t
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Robin wrote:
> Were those users using Debian stable? I use Sid so I usually
> dist-upgrade as long it isn't going obviously affect my system, i.e
> removing applications I want to keep.
>
My process on sid is
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-up
On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 12:52:05 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> >>
> >> At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach
> >> would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instance
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>>
>> At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach
>> would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of
>> "squeeze" with "wheezy", and then running
>>
>> # apt-
On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 11:54:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> The recommended way is specific to each release and thoroughly
> documented in the Release Notes.
Which is where I got what I wrote from:
If the system being upgraded provides critical services for your
users or the network[2], y
On Jo, 23 ian 14, 23:47:11, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> > At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach
> > would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of
> > "squeeze" with "wheezy", and then running
> >
> > # apt-
> At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach would
> be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of "squeeze" with
> "wheezy", and then running
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
It's not always that straightforward for upgrades between major
releases. You
On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach
> would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of
> "squeeze" with "wheezy", and then running
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> That as far as
Thanks to all who have chimed in!
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Klaus wrote:
When for instance a new version of an already installed package
depends on a previously not installed library, then "apt-get
update" cannot update this pkg. You need "dist-upgrade" for that
job.
Aha. Thx for the RTFM; I had
Bob Bernstein:
>
> But the thread currently underway about dist-upgrade suggests that
> users are running it rather routinely, and not at all necessarily to
> move from one release to the next.
>
> Can someone please point out what I am missing?
What you are doing is generally the safe way. apt-
On 23/01/14 20:51, Bob Bernstein wrote:
A thread about dist-upgrade has me confused. In my experience I have
only ever run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when I wanted to move from one
release to the next, say, from squeeze to wheezy.
Similarly, if I wanted to insure I had the latest versions of packag
On 23 January 2014 20:51, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> A thread about dist-upgrade has me confused. In my experience I have only
> ever run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when I wanted to move from one release to
> the next, say, from squeeze to wheezy.
>
> Similarly, if I wanted to insure I had the latest ve
Bob,
It was my understanding that dist-upgrade was only needed to resolve issues
that couldn't be resolved by upgrade. I have moved from wheezy to jessie
with a simple aptitude update and didn't need the dist-upgrade. If this is
incorrect I would love to know cause I ran into some issues with my
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