On Friday 06 March 2015 20:11:52 Brian wrote: > On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > > > Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1 > > > is it. > > > > FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the > > equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change quickly and > > sometimes majorly on the path to Stable. You'll want to get ALL those > > changes -- minor and major. "Upgrade" won't do that. This is > > recommended by Debian. Once Jessie is Stable, revert to "upgrade" for > > the most part. > > I agree with everything but the final sentence. Stable is unlikely to > pull in any new packages but if it does you will likely need them. > In other words, 'dist-upgrade' should be the norm for stable.
I agree. I always use full-upgrade (I use aptitude), unless there is a compelling reason why not. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503062105.32932.lisi.re...@gmail.com
