apt discrepancy?

[Dave Stevens]

On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:54:01 PM Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 6/7/2011 5:45 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > When I log in I get this:
> > 
> > 66 packages can be updated.
> > 43 updates are security updates.
> > 
> > but when I do this:
> > 
> > root at sandbox:/var/log/apt# apt-get upgrade
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > root at sandbox:/var/log/apt#
> > 
> > so WTF?
> 
> If it's on login that junk is said, it's most likely not an apt
> discrepancy, just a MOTD glitch and didn't update the MOTD when you last
> updated, possibly.  What happens with you do:
> 
> apt-get clean
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade

doesn't that last one upgrade the distro? I'm running 10.04 intentionally for 
a server and don't want to change versions, just to keep updates happening for 
the package that are already installed.

Dave

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