apt discrepancy?

[Dave Stevens]

On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 04:27:30 PM Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 6/8/2011 6:17 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> By default no, unless you tell it to.  By default it will only do point
> releases, the only way it would attempt to upgrade to another release,
> say 10.10 is if you change your sources.list and now days there is a
> much cleaner way of doing that.  Dist-Upgrade is more intelligent then
> upgrade too.
> 
> 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.

Thanks very much, I've done as you suggested and although the message is still 
out of whack the updates have been done.

Dave

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