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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/194
by 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 agoThat 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main claim to fame is that it is able to remove a package if necessary for the upgrade (necessary because packages get outdated and removed).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.