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Tell HN: Ubuntu already updated openssl packages

• jamesbritt 13y ago
  Is this better (or notably different) than doing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ?
  • jqueryin 13y ago
    dist-upgrade can perform unpredictably and can put your servers in a fubar state. Here's just a quick comparison of the two: http://askubuntu.com/questions/194651/why-use-apt-get-upgrade-instead-of-apt-get-dist-upgrade http://askubuntu.com/questions/194651/why-use-apt-get-upgrad...
    • ars 13y ago
      That is not accurate. dist-upgrade is when you are upgrading from one release to another, i.e. a major update, some downtime expected. It's main claim to fame is that it is able to remove a package if necessary for the upgrade (necessary because packages get outdated and removed). For normal upgrades you don't need it (but it's harmless if you use it anyway). A normal security upgrade will never delete any packages, so using it doesn't make any difference.
      • jqueryin 13y ago
        So what you're saying is you don't trust the man pages from apt-get?
        • ars 13y ago
          What are you talking about? The information I wrote is FROM the man page.
• jqueryin 13y ago
  For those interested, here is a direct link HN user josh-rale had posted in the other popular thread: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-0160.html http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-20...