Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?"

From	rhkramer@gmail.com
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Subject	Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?"
Date	2020-10-22 01:10 +0200
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On Wednesday, October 21, 2020 02:03:26 PM David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 21 Oct 2020 at 09:40:37 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Ma, 20 oct 20, 10:44:17, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I agree, for an additional reason -- iiuc, if you are using an older
> > > version of Debian, dist-upgrade will attempt to upgrade to the current
> > > version, which could cause problems.
> 
> What do you mean by "older" and "current"? There's no reason to
> suppose that sources.list has been touched. Perhaps the "dist-"
> prefix is confusing¹, and makes you think there's a release
> change involved. But one of the virtues of the apt-get command
> line is its stability, hence its recommendation for scripting,
> so that's unlikely to change.

I was thinking it could do something like (attempting to) migrate a system 
from, for example, Jessie to Buster ...

> Are you not just compounding rhkramer's confusion?

Ahh yes, thanks for straightening me out, I was confused!

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kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2020-10-20 02:10 +0200
  Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-10-20 02:30 +0200
    Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-20 03:20 +0200
    Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2020-10-20 03:50 +0200
    Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-20 11:20 +0200
      Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-10-20 13:40 +0200
        Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-20 15:20 +0200
      Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-20 16:50 +0200
        Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 08:50 +0200
          Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-21 20:10 +0200
            Re: kernel security upgrade - "rebase?" rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-22 01:10 +0200

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