Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > You can get that behavior from apt-get by adding the --with-new-pkgs > option, but it's hard to remember and hard to type. I suspect most > apt-get users just bump it up to "apt-get dist-upgrade" whenever there's > a new kernel ABI or whatever.
correct. since i preload my shell commands when i login for me the difference is between !2 and !3, !4 does the purge of autoinstalled packages and !1 does the apt-get update. these commands go in my .bashrc for root. ===== history -c history -s "apt-get update& fetchnews&" history -s "apt-get upgrade" history -s "apt-get dist-upgrade" history -s "apt-get autoremove --purge" ===== after i've seen a new kernel come through i clean up the oldest one so i don't have that hanging around wasting space. i don't run unstable though for much these days other than noting when a new firefox release comes along. songbird
