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Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7

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On Vi, 25 ian 19, 13:36:37, Kent West wrote:
> 
> The basic difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is that upgrade
> doesn't remove existing or pull in not-installed stuff, whereas
> dist-upgrade might.

That is true for 'apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade'. 'apt upgrade' will 
install packages.

> The former is good when you need a box to undergo
> minimal change; the latter is good when you just want things to "work". The
> former is probably more suitable for servers, the latter for end-user
> computers.
> 
> I usually do "dist-upgrade" out of habit (as I spend most of my time on
> end-user computers); but "upgrade" might be, at least theoretically, safer.

On Debian stable 'apt full-upgrade' is almost never necessary[1] if you 
use 'apt upgrade' regularly, the major exception being upgrading to the 
next stable release (of course).

Even on testing or unstable one could use 'apt upgrade' regularly and 
'apt full-upgrade' only when necessary.

[1] I seem to recall that in the cases where it is necessary 'apt' will 
mention "held back packages" and will even suggest to use 
'full-upgrade'.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Pete Geenhuizen <pete@geenhuizen.net> - 2019-01-25 18:40 +0100
  Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2019-01-25 19:00 +0100
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  Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-01-25 19:10 +0100
  Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-25 20:20 +0100
    Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-25 20:20 +0100
      Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-01-25 20:30 +0100
        Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-25 20:40 +0100
          Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-05-25 09:20 +0200
      Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-25 20:40 +0100
        Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-25 20:50 +0100
      Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Katnip <katnip62@pm.me> - 2019-01-26 00:50 +0100
        Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-26 01:40 +0100
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          Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-26 03:10 +0100
          Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Katnip <katnip62@pm.me> - 2019-01-26 03:30 +0100
            Re: I'm a bit confused on how to upgrade to stretch 9.7 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2019-01-26 03:40 +0100
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