We had a session at the last virtual UDS about this -- it would have
changed how we do things a little, but not by much. However, the
proposal was not adopted by the tech board, so it's not going to happen :-)
Nicholas
On 04/14/2013 08:48 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:
Thanks guys very helpful.
Another question, What will ubuntu moving to a rolling release do to
the QAteam?
Istimsak Abdulbasir
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:06 PM, José Antonio Rey
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
And sudo do-release-upgrade upgrades the release itself.
On 04/14/2013 07:03 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
> From the man pages for apt:-
>
> *sudo apt-get upgrade*
> *
> *
> *upgrade *is used to install the newest versions of all packages
> currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
> /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new
versions
> available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are
> currently installed packages removed, or packages not already
installed
> retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed
packages
> that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of
another
> package will be left at their current version. An update must be
> performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of
packages are
> available.
>
> *sudo apt-get dist-upgrade*
> *
> **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. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of
locations
> from which to retrieve desired package files. See also
> apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding the general
settings
> for individual packages.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Istimsak Abdulbasir
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>
> Is this right command to update a ubuntu system?
>
> sudo dist-upgrade #not sure if I spelled it right
>
> What is the difference from apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade?
>
> Istimak Abdulbasir
>
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