Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
But surelly upgrade has some use, I mean, there's probably some situation in which you would prefer to use upgrade in place of dist-upgrade, could someone please shed some light in this isue? jorge santos
