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Re: Upgrading Debian

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On 9/14/2015 2:33 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I know.  It took me a while to work out what he actually wanted with all the
> drama. ;-)  People who come from Ubuntu don't understand about point
> releases.  Since I don't know Ubuntu, I don't know what it is that they are
> thinking of.
>
> Lisi
>

I do run Ubuntu LTS on a machine at my work place and I don't know what 
the thinking is
either. :-\

If there is an actual new release the update manager tells you about it 
and gives you the
option to upgrade, no mucking about with sources.list files, ISOs, etc...
After the upgrade you then have to go through any *.list files in 
'/etc/apt/sources.list.d/'
if you have any to re-enable them and make sure they point where they 
need do.
Not sure what happens if you have unofficial stuff in your sources.list 
instead of in placing
them in their own *.list files.

Personally I prefer editing my *.list files and pulling in smaller 
batches of updates.

For point releases, if you keep up with the updates you probably have 
most of it by the
time install images are made available anyway so just keep doing updates 
the same way
no reason to re-install.

There is a possibility of some driver/init related stuff being a little 
different in a re-install
compared to just doing the normal update, but the odds of noticing the 
difference is pretty
small so.... If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

In the general sense, more or less the same as it is with Debian.:-)

Later, Seeker

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  Re: Upgrading Debian Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 12:50 +0200
  Re: Upgrading Debian Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 17:20 +0200
    Re: Upgrading Debian Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 18:10 +0200
      Re: Upgrading Debian Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 06:10 +0200
        Re: Upgrading Debian Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 11:40 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Debian Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 18:20 +0200
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