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Does the command "aptitude upgrade" perform a full-upgrade or a safe-upgrade on Debian?

Both the commands aptitude full-upgrade and aptitude safe-upgrade are documented, including the dist-upgrade alias for full-upgrade.

However, simply aptitude upgrade will also upgrade the system in some way...which does it default to? Also how would I find this for myself? man aptitude upgrade doesn't help.

Solution

  • As can be seen in the source-code (but not the docs), upgrade is indeed an alias for safe-upgrade:

    else if(!strcasecmp(argv[0], "full-upgrade") ||
  !strcasecmp(argv[0], "dist-upgrade"))
{
   default_action = cmdline_upgrade;
   // [...]
   upgrade_mode = full_upgrade;
   // [...]
   resolver_mode = resolver_mode_full;
}
else if(!strcasecmp(argv[0], "safe-upgrade") ||
  !strcasecmp(argv[0], "upgrade"))
{
   default_action = cmdline_upgrade;
   // [...]
   upgrade_mode = safe_upgrade;
   // [...]
   resolver_mode = resolver_mode_safe;
}