On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 11:24 -0800, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> On 02/16/2013 10:53 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> > In the auth log I see COMMAND=/usr/bin/update-manager --dist-upgrade. I
> > did not enter that command. I cannot decipher other logs.
> >
> > Any clues as to what happened,
This is just a normal upgrade (more or less). The difference between
update and dist-update is
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new
versions
of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution
system, and
it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
command may remove some packages.
(from man apt-get)
In practice the main difference you will notice is that dist-upgrade
install new kernels.
Update manager does a dist-upgrade by default so that is what you would
see in normal operation.
> unless somehow it was trying to take you from 12.04 to
> 12.10. And, no. I don't know how to prevent a recurrence.
In the update -manager settings you can change to notify you only of LTS
releases (or not at all).
Paul
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