Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-09 Thread Jim Hall
Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday June 8 2005 12:17 pm, Jim Hall wrote: Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? It depends. Do you want to track Sarge or stable? Stable is always the current release, Sarge is always Sar

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-09 Thread Jim Hall
Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday June 8 2005 1:32 pm, Jim Hall wrote: Sounds good. Next link in the chain, will I have to use 'dist-upgrade'? Yes, though you might find visual representation of what you're doing helpful. You might want to do this instead: apt-get install aptitude Then,

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:27:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > Yesterday on the chat rooms it was claimed that using aptitude was more > > successful and effective than using apt-get dist-upgrade. Apparently > > aptitude is suppo

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday June 8 2005 5:27 pm, Tom Allison wrote: > Yesterday on the chat rooms it was claimed that using aptitude was > more successful and effective than using apt-get dist-upgrade. > Apparently aptitude is supposed to do the conflict resolution > better than dist-upgrade or apt-get. apt is

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday June 8 2005 1:32 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > Sounds good. Next link in the chain, will I have to use > 'dist-upgrade'? Yes, though you might find visual representation of what you're doing helpful. You might want to do this instead: apt-get install aptitude Then, once that is installed,

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday June 8 2005 12:17 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' > to "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? It depends. Do you want to track Sarge or stable? Stable is always the current release, Sarge is always Sarge. -- Paul Johnson

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I strongly suspect that this is pure BS. I have never had a problem with > conflict resolution with either flavors of dist-upgrade, namely > apt-get dist-upgrade and > aptitude dist-upgrage. Both work for me. > Furthermore, the cod

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:27:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: > >Lee Braiden wrote: > > > >>On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote: > >> > >>>Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to > >>>"stable", or leave Sarge as the target? > >> > >> > >> >

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Tom Allison
Jim Hall wrote: Lee Braiden wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote: Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? No, you can do nothing, if you like. Pointing it to "stable" would only do something once the

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:32:31PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > Sounds good. Next link in the chain, will I have to use 'dist-upgrade'? > Those times I've used it have usually had bad results. If I can continue > to manually repair what's 'held back', that seems safer to me. A dist-upgrade should be

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:45:45PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote: > > Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to > > "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? > > No, you can do nothing, if you like. > > Pointing it to "stable

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Jim Hall
Lee Braiden wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote: Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? No, you can do nothing, if you like. Pointing it to "stable" would only do something once the next release happen

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote: > Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to > "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? No, you can do nothing, if you like. Pointing it to "stable" would only do something once the next release happens. Then, the new "s

Clarify Sarge Release

2005-06-08 Thread Jim Hall
Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]