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Why does this open a dialog box that looks like a distribution upgrade?

Asked by Shane H

Hi,
I am planning on not upgrading until there is a new LTS out.

However, I was offered a 'partial upgrade'. What is this?

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Salih EMIN (salih-emin) said : 		#1

Partial upgrade is "update-manager --dist-upgrade" command inside 2Click Update. Don't be scared as it does NOT upgrade your distro from 10.00 --> 11.04, it just upgrades your packages to the next version (e.g 1.0 to 2.0 not just to 1.1) if you have enabled the "backport and/or pre-release" repositories. If you haven't then it just performs the usual apt-get upgrade. Its the same thing but partial upgrade can handle in a better way system upgrades than the apt-get upgrade.

I may have to remove this feature because it confuses people using 2click update... and I don't want that at all..

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Salih EMIN (salih-emin) said : 		#2

Also from technical point of view, "apt-get dist-upgrade" differs from "apt-get upgrade" in that it will remove obsolete packages and add new dependencies, while "apt-get upgrade" will not.
This may be necessary when upgrading from one distro release to another, but it is not the *only* time it is necessary. Thus, in aptitude, dist-upgrade has been renamed to "full-upgrade"
Apt-get dist-upgrade will only change you from one release to another if you've modified /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a newer release, but this method of upgrading is not recommended.... the recommended way to change distro releases is sudo do-release-upgrade

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