Confusing terminology when performing update/upgrade.
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
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Summary: For the benefit of newer users, use the word "Update" to update/upgrade already installed packages. Use "Upgrade" to perform a system upgrade to the next Ubuntu release.
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Ubuntu 10.04 offers UPDATES which are changes within 10.04, and distribution UPGRADES, which would be the conversion of 10.04 to 10.10, for example. However, due to a confusion of terminology, 10.04 is offering UPGRADES which are in fact UPDATES. I have just run update-manager on my wife's machine to perform an UPDATE. However, it was described by the software as an UPGRADE. It was therefore unclear whether it was improving 10.04 or converting 10.04 to 10.10. After the UPDATE/ UPGRADE, 10.04 was still on the machine (fortunately, as this is what I wanted), so it was in fact an UPDATE.
On the assumption that this issue remains in future versions, please clarify in the code the use of the terms, and restrict the term UPGRADE to transitions between version numbers, and use UPDATES for within a version number. Then non-geek users that really only want Ubuntu to just work, and don't want to launch major system upgrades by mistake when they would prefer to stay with the 10.04 LTS version, with all the implications for production usage, won't be concerned or confused.
thanks.
ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.11
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Date: Sat Mar 12 20:47:17 2011Installatio
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description: | updated |
summary: |
- confused terminology update/upgrade + Confusing terminology when performing update/upgrade. |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Matthew Linscott (matt-linscott) |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Matthew Linscott (matt-linscott) → nobody |
tags: | added: quantal |
Technically you are "upgrading" your system. An update just checks the repos in your sources.list for newer versions of packages. An upgrade actually installs the latest packages that update has found. Here is the man page for upgrade in apt-get:
--upgrade-- sources. list. Packages currently installed with new
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
/etc/apt/
versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no
circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages
not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of
currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
changing the install status of another package will be left at
their current version. An update must be performed first so that
apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.