What is bionic-updates?

Asked Feb 20 '19 at 09:57

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After having had a tactical issue with bionic-updates, I came to wonder what bionic-updates actually was but could not find any documentation.

What is this distribution for? Is this some kind of "testing but not quite" for bionic?

edited Feb 20 '19 at 10:40

asked Feb 20 '19 at 09:57

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine (eg. the Adding Repositories section) shows -updates is expected, because it may have updated packages since release. If you look up gcc in packages (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&keywords=gcc) you'll note bionic-updates contains a later package for Bionic (18.04) than existed in bionic. For some packages there may be none, others may have greater difference. -proposed is the 'testing' packages. – guiverc Feb 20 '19 at 10:29
Also: What is the difference between security, updates, proposed and backports in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades? – Olorin Feb 20 '19 at 10:30

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