Questions about apt-get and updating/upgrading from 14.04 to 14.04.1

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Sat Jul 19 19:26:44 UTC 2014


At Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:26:16 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Robert Heller wrote:
> > I have a question about apt-get and what is the correct process to
> > upgrade a system from 14.04 to 14.04.1.
> > 
> > I know that normally one does 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade'
> > to first update the repository listing files and then upgrade
> > packages, generally for routine bug and security updates.  What I am
> > not sure about is whether this is sufficient to do a point-level
> > update or not.
> 
> Yes, it is sufficient. The point releases are more or less only updates 
> to the iso images which include the latest updates at the time of their 
> release.

Ah... Just like CentOS's point level updates...

> 
> 
> Nils
> 
> 

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