Question about moving to new release candidates

capncrunch · 2016-04-27 15:30:37

When moving from one release candidate to a newer release candidate (once it's available), is a complete reinstall required, or will simply doing an apt update and apt upgrade result in the equivalent of the new release candidate?

Horizon_Brave · 2016-04-27 15:38:29

From what I've seen / done my self, unless you have some need to go through and maybe repartition disks, or do any lower level housekeeping, doing an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade is equivalent to installing the new release.

EDIT: Oh yea and keep in mind if you have a lot of from source software, or backports, I think an upgrade method has more potential in causing some issues? Am I wrong in thinking this anyone? Some one let me know if I"m wrong

Last edited by Horizon_Brave (2016-04-27 15:46:14)

damo · 2016-04-27 17:37:38

capncrunch wrote:

When moving from one release candidate to a newer release candidate (once it's available), is a complete reinstall required, or will simply doing an apt update and apt upgrade result in the equivalent of the new release candidate?

You don't need to "move" to a new RC. The isos are built from our packages (which are sourced from github), so the result should be the same as an update/upgrade. With the proviso, of course, that an upgraded installation may need attention to some user configs, if there have been any changes since the last upgrade.

capncrunch · 2016-04-27 19:57:44

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated! It's going to be for a little media and file server in the basement which, although I could do a full reinstall if I had to, I'd prefer just doing updates. Thanks again.

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