On 05/25/2017 06:27 AM, RavenLX wrote: > On 05/21/2017 05:40 PM, David Christensen wrote: >> As I understand it: >> >> * 'apt-get upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new minor revision >> -- e.g. Debian 8.7 to Debian 8.8 -- and/or new packages -- e.g. >> icedove 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1 to thunderbird 1:45.8.0-3~deb8u1). >> >> * 'apt-get dist-upgrade' is for rolling forward to a new major >> revision -- e.g. Debian 7 to Debian 8. >> >> >> I do the former regularly -- once or more per week. >> >> >> I avoid the latter, as it's caused me grief in the past (when I want >> to do a major version upgrade, I backup, move the system disk aside, >> do a fresh install, and restore). >> >> >> My issue is likely tied to some software corner case due the the >> hardware -- e.g. 32-bit laptop with an off-spec 64-bit processor >> jammed in. > > I've always used dist-upgrade for years without any problems. It's an > old habit by now. If I don't, I learned there are some packages I *do* > want to upgrade that get held back (ie. not upgraded) if I don't do > dist-upgrade, such as new kernels (which I like to keep the kernel the > newest out there). I haven't yet had any real major issues (even minor > issues I've always found a work-around and 99% of the time it was just > something I myself needed to configure, and not really a bug). I run > stable so maybe that is why I have such good luck. On test VMs I do > dist-upgrade basically because I know I can always start over if things > go wrong. And Virtual Machines are the test systems anyway. > Yeah, I like the VMs for testing as well. Unfortunately, I'm poor :) and my equipment is pretty slow, so VM performance is pretty poor too :) Right now I'm running Stretch, and 99% of the time, I have no problems, but every once in a while.... >
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