On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:16PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I track unstable/sid and also routinely do "apt-get upgrade" with no > apparent problems. Every once in a while, I'll answer 'no' to doing the > upgrade and then do a "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" and will have the exact > same packages to be updated. Other times it will want to update > different ones. > > I must admit that I'm confused... is there much reason to do "upgrade" > vs "dist-upgrade". I get the idea I should start using the latter just > about all the time.
i don't see any point to using upgrade instead of dist-upgrade. > So that's why "dist-upgrade" sometimes want to add new packages that I > either don't want or don't currently have installed, right ?? I suppose > I could make a note of these packages and then remove them right after > it's finished. see the man page on a description of what dist-upgrade does. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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