Am Sonntag, 20. November 2016, 13:58:35 CET schrieb Thom Castermans: > 2016-11-20 10:45 GMT+01:00 Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]>: > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:28:29AM +0100, Luc Castermans wrote: […] > > > > It's the same as `apt upgrade`. > > > > > > in contrast to ¨ aptitude dist-upgrade; which will upgrade all > > > > No, there is `aptitude full-upgrade` which is the same as `apt > > dist-upgrade`. > > Just for completeness: aptitude in fact does recognize dist-upgrade. Its > man > page says the following about the full-upgrade option. "This command was > originally named dist-upgrade for historical reasons, and aptitude still > recognizes dist-upgrade as a synonym for full-upgrade." > > More on topic: the man page for aptitude is actually very nice and explains > what > the difference is between a safe-upgrade and a full-upgrade in some detail.
AFAIR there was a time where aptitude didn´t recognize dist-upgrade to encourage users to use full-upgrade, but I think this teaching attempt has failed :) Actually the aptitude names are more accurate, yet I didn´t switch either. upgrade / safe-upgrade holds packages back if installing them would cause new packages to be installed or installed ones to be removed. dist-upgrade / full- upgrade upgrades these too. Thanks, -- Martin
