On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:35:41PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:23:37PM +0200): > > It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, > > the cabal will have to send a mob onto you. ;-) > > but as far as i know, you only want to place a "hold" onto that > package, then use apt-get for the dist-upgrade. i think; noone has > explained to me the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get > dist-upgrade.
>From the apt-get man page: upgrade upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available. dist-upgrade dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. Basically, 'dist-upgrade' uses a more aggressive approach to upgrades. 'upgrade' will only play with packages already installed on the system, whereas dist-upgrade will add new ones or delete obsolete ones as it sees fit. -Nelson
