[Gllug] Debian Matching Machines

Steve Nelson sanelson at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 10:43:29 UTC 2005


On Apr 7, 2005 11:38 AM, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:16 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> [snip]
> >    I would consider that searching for security and other package updates,
> > then deciding what I wish to install, then listing each manually to instruct
> > apt-get and apt-install, to be much more like hard work.
> 
> But why would anyone do that?  A simple:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> 
> is all that is needed.

Isn't the  point that you might not want to upgrade *everything*, and
rather search for and upgrade a limited subset of packages?

S.
> John
> 
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