Subject: apt-get update
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 03:30:21PM -0700
In reply to:Robert Kerr
Quoting Robert Kerr([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
| > Hi all,
| > many people have sung the praise of apt-get. They've talked about how it
| > is so easy to upgrade dists using 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrad'.
| > Isn't it true though that you have to change the line in
| > /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the new dist? Nobody every mentions
| > that.
| >
Yes, it has been mentioned quite a bit. Like when they list
##### Unstable source
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
or
##### Security Updates
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable updates
deb-src ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable updates
But then again, they don't always say which is Potato or Slink. BUT
anyone who has been using Debian for more then a few hours would be
able to see that the dists 'are' stable and unstable.
Anyone trying to upgrade to potato using a slink line in
sources.list would know very soon that he had 'not' in fact, upgraded.
Guess most posters of apt-get suggested lines assume that the reader
has some intelligence. After all, this isn't winbloze.
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