Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Bret Busby]

On 05/10/2017, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 October 2017 at 20:25, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Your quoting is badly broken and I cannot tell to what you are referring.
>
>> and my understanding is that
>> apt-get dist-upgrade
>> upgrades the distribution, or version, to the latest current one;
>> hence, 16.04 to 17.10 ; LTS to non-LTS.
>
> No. No it does not.
>
>> In the context of all of the material in that message, it inferred,
>
> To infer means to draw a conclusion on the basis of evidence. I think
> you mean "it implied".
>
>> or, implied, that
>> apt-get dist-upgrade = apt full-upgrade
>
> That is correct.
>
> Both "apt-get dist-upgrade" and "apt full-upgrade" mean the same. They
> both instruct APT to upgrade all the packages in your installation to
> the latest available versions *of that release*. Neither will upgrade
> to a newer release of Ubuntu.
>
>> Simple me, simple logic.
>
> Remember the kid's joke:
>
> "Don't assume. Remember, when you assume, you make an 'ass' out of 'u'
> and 'me'."
>
> You have jumped, from inadequate evidence, to an incorrect conclusion.
> Don't try to defend it, just learn from it and move on.
>

So, you make weird gratuitous derogatory personal comments, without
contributing to fixing the problem.

The problem remains that I can not now update the system without
updating all packages.

Previously, the option was available to do a system update, without
updating all of the packages, involving the option of deselecting
packages to be updated. That option is no longer available.

Even, in trying synaptic, that no longer allows individual packages to
be deselected - the option is now, "greyed out". If a single package
update had been tied in with updating another package, that would have
been displayed, with an option to also deselect the associated package
from being updated.

But, those options are now, no longer available.

It is now "If you want to update these packages, we will force you to
make these other unrelated package changes, regardless of the harm
that we will cause to you and your system".


-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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