Re: apt-get upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
Ole Sebastian Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What are the differences between apt-get upgrade and apt-get >dist-upgrade? Look in the apt-get(8) man page: upgrade upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the syste

Re: Apt-get upgrade vs dist-upgrade?

2000-02-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:04:25PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > What's the difference between apt-get upgrade and > apt-get dist-upgrade? Just doing "upgrade" will not upgrade any packages that: a) Require installing new packages that are not currently installed b) Require removing packages that

Re: Apt-get upgrade vs dist-upgrade?

2000-02-04 Thread Sean Johnson
apt-get upgrade will attempt to upgrade the packages which you currently have installed on your system. If any of those upgrades require that additional packages be removed or installed then the said package(s) will be held back. apt-get dist-upgrade will attempt to upgrade all packages, installin