On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:13:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +0000, lostson wrote: > > > Hello > > > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > > > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with > > > aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc? > > > Or can I jsut use my sources list from this machine on the other 2 and > > > do a apt-get update then apt-get upgrade ? Thanks. > > > > It is possible, just edit '/etc/apt/sources.list' in your favourite > > editor and replace all occurances of "stable" or "sarge" with either > > "testing" (if you want to stay with newer stuff after etch is released) > > or "etch" (if you want to use etch once it becomes 'stable'). Then a > > simple 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (mind the dist-) will > > update. Watch your updating however, there have been some changes since > > sarge, like xfree86 -> xorg, so prepare to reinstall some packages and > > deal with some brokenness. > > > the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade > > before > |sarge|etch| pkg name > |x | | A.sarge |-- | | A.etch > |x | | B > |x | | C > |x | | D > |x | | E > |x | | F.sarge |-- | | F.etch > |x | | G > |x | | H > |x | | I > > upgrade > |sarge|etch| pkg name > |x | | A.sarge |-- | | A.etch > | |x | B > |x | | C > |x | | D > | |x | E > | |x | F.sarge |-- | | F.etch > | |x | G > | |x | H > | |x | I > > dist-upgrade > |sarge|etch| pkg namme | |-- | A.sarge > | |x | A.etch > | |x | B > | |x | C > | |x | D > | |x | E > | |-- | F.sarge > | |x | F.etch | |x | G > | |x | H > | |x | I
Isn't is more like what I've added above. IOW. a dist-upgrade will remove packages. some etch packages don't exist in sarge and vice-versa. so some of the sarge packages will be reomved and replaced with different packages from etch? A
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