Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:42:20PM -0400, songbird wrote: >> when you run: >> >> $ apt-get upgrade >> >> it will not add any new programs, but when you run: >> >> $ apt-get dist-upgrade >> >> it will tell you which are new of the updates it is >> going to perform (if any). > > I strongly recommend using the half-documented -u option here: > > apt-get -u upgrade > > It's not in the man page, but it IS in the "apt-get -h" output. > > That way you'll have some warning of which services are going to be > affected. If, for example, you see that your database server is > going to be upgraded, and you know that this will impact your users, > you may want to wait until a less busy time to do the upgrade, and > shut down your database-client application(s), etc. > > This is also one of the reasons why unattended upgrades are not on > by default.
not to worry, only one person uses this system and i never do unattended upgrades (running testing or unstable at times). when i ran a production system there was a whole series of things needed to take the system down and up again. when people today complain that the system takes a few seconds longer to boot i mention that ours took 12hrs (or longer). songbird
