Update Announcement Format discussion

[David Rees]

Jesse Keating wrote, On 1/11/2004 9:18 AM:
> On Saturday 10 January 2004 21:14, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
>>
>>If you just run "apt-get update" alone, it's not going to actually
>>install anything, to the best of my knowledge.
> 
> Perhaps you are right.  I've never really used apt before, so I'm a bit 
> rusty.  Why couldn't you just do apt-get upgrade ?

update updates the package list from the apt-repository without actually 
upgrading any software, upgrade will upgrade out-of-date packages.  You 
do need both.  Contrary to yum where `yum update` is synonymous with 
`apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade`.

-Dave