-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:06:29PM +0100, john walsh wrote: > With Debian - how does the process of keeping the packages/system > updated work ?
Automagically. $ su -m # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade Go get some coffee while apt works it's magic, answer a couple questions, and you're done. For the record, up2date is RedHat's cheap knockoff of apt. (It should tell people something that I know a local who works for Red Hat and submits regularly to gcc and I converted him to Debian on his home box. Not going to name names for his sake, though.) > 1) is there some system for checking for newer packages, and installing > them (like RH up2date) ? Apt. > 2) does it keep me really up to date ? ie. when the next release > past woody comes out, will it upgrade to it, or do I have to re-install > again ? Yes. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+iGkkJ5vLSqVpK2kRAp92AJ0RMx0YxcTa4IP07Nh40urxYohDvACdFQE6 e+vroJqkWj25Y24y148BeDA= =xVkl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
