Post #1867792
2026-05-02 02:10 UTC
I’ve been running Debian since 2007 and never understood the point of apt upgrade .
When I update, I want the updated version for everything on my system.
I don’t want to arbitrarily hold back packages just because a dependency changed. I’ll decide for myself if that’s an issue in my deployment. And Debian is generally very good at keeping everything running exactly the same way between releases.
I pin the release by name (not “stable”) and then dist-upgrade always.
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@Slashme@lemmy.world 2026-05-02 09:11
I’ve always been doing apt dist-upgrade. What’s the difference between dist-upgrade and full-upgrade?