I almost always run an upgrade twice just to make sure there wasn't an
error that I missed. Since I've been doing that I've never have a
broken system when I reboot.
The vast majority of broken systems I've seen come from systems that for
one reason or another only partially upgraded and then the machine was
rebooted leaving it in a rather nasty state. I've also noticed that a
lot of the graphical package managers make that situation worse by
telling you the system needs to be rebooted when the upgrade didn't
finish successfully.
Brian Cluff
On 04/02/2015 10:03 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
As a result of this i usually run an apt-get update/upgrade after i
successfully complete one just to make sure i didn't miss anything
(might as well while i am there)
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Brian Cluff <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The package system works by copying the database of available software
from the server to your computer. At that moment all your packaging
software knows about is what is in it's local copy of the database.
You probably did one upgrade in synaptic based on a slightly older
version of the package database, and when that was done you got a
fresh copy of the database and were then able to upgrade to all the
changes that were made during the time between the first and second
time you downloaded the database.
It's also possible that there were simply new programs added while you
were doing the first upgrade. There is so much software in the
repositories that it's extremely likely they are any moment
something you have loaded is getting updated.
Brian Cluff
On 04/01/2015 10:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
yeah. but why did apt-get upgrade it after I had already upgraded
with synaptic?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:07 PM, James Mcphee <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
the update refreshes your package cache. that would mean there were
changes between the last time and this time you updated the cache.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Michael Havens
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
you know, I merrily did an upgrade with synaptic and the little icon
by the clock showed that all was well. for some reason I decided to
run 'apt-get update' 'apt-get upgrade' and more files upgraded.
why?? :-)~MIKE~(-:
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