apt discrepancy?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jun 8 23:25:09 UTC 2011


On 06/08/2011 04:17 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:54:01 PM Jordon Bedwell wrote:
...
>> 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.
...
No. It won't upgrade the distro. See:
$ man apt-get





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