[Live-demo] Dist-upgrade

[Massimo Di Stefano]

On a fresh xubuntu 9.10 installation (32bit) 

using a regular :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

all works (regular virgin linux without osgeo live installation)

the VirtualBox ( .vdi ) disk image in bzip compression has size of 1Gb, 

what about switch from vmware to more opensource vbox ?

Alex, i can upload the vbox image to save you from instalation time, if we want give a try to vbox.

Ciao,

Massimo.


Il giorno 12/feb/2010, alle ore 03.39, Alex Mandel ha scritto:

> Alex Mandel wrote:
>> Hamish wrote:
>>> Alex wrote:
>>>> More in general in setup.sh shouldn't we use apt-get
>>>> dist-upgrade instead of just upgrade to play it safe?
>>> 
>>> don't you mean "apt-get safe-upgrade"  ??
>>> 
>>> 
>>> dist-upgrade is used to update from 9.10 to 10.04 once it is released. and this generally requires a bit of handholding and
>>> care so should not be done automatically.
>>> 
>>> if you need dist-upgrade it indicates that something is broken
>>> or not fully upgraded from e.g. 8.10 if your setup.
>>> 
>>> if ubuntu is releasing in-distrib security updates which require
>>> dist-upgrade to work, well fooey on them.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ?,
>>> Hamish
>> 
>> To clarify the naming of commands is kind of misleading:
>> dist-upgrade is not the command on Ubuntu to change from 9.04 to 9.10
>> (example). It's actually what you would think would be called
>> smart-upgrade or safe-upgrade. It actually matches the synaptic smart
>> update option.
>> 
>> "dist-upgrade
>>           dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of
>> upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new
>> versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system,
>> and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
>> expense of less important ones if necessary. The
>> /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to
>> retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a
>> mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual
>> packages."
>> 
>> safe-upgrade is an aptitude command not an apt command, go figure...
>> 
>> Alex
> 
> Note:
> I realize it might behave the way you suggested if one manually changes
> the source list to point to the next version of Ubuntu.
> 
> Alex
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