apt discrepancy?

[Dave Stevens]

On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 04:25:09 PM NoOp wrote:
> 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

I did in fact read the man page and found it confusing, as I see man pages 
often are. But thanks anyway.

D

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