Re: upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
(cmiiw, may I conclude/rewrite) [Aurelio Turco] Of all the Linux Distributions, Debian is said to have the most advanced packaging system. I regard the packaging system as very important. So, I will be installing Debian (probably 2.2r2, from CD). But before I do that, I would like to clarify wha

Re: upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:11:02AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > > Of all the Linux Distributions, Debian is said to have the most > advanced packaging system. I regard the packaging system as very > important. So, I will be installing Debian (probably 2.2r2, from CD). > But before I do that, I w

Re: upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Aurelio Turco wrote: > 5: Install again from scratch, to upgrade to a new release. > Do this only if your installed release is too far behind the > release you wish to upgrade to. I would only suggest this one if your distribution doesn't have even an old version of a

Re: upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:14:34PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:11:02AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > > 5: Install again from scratch, to upgrade to a new release. > > Do this only if your installed release is too far behind the > > release you wish to upgrade

Re: upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Tom Allison
Aurelio Turco wrote: Of all the Linux Distributions, Debian is said to have the most advanced packaging system. I regard the packaging system as very important. So, I will be installing Debian (probably 2.2r2, from CD). But before I do that, I would like to clarify what the recommended upgrade

Re: upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Danie Roux
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:11:02AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > > If I have understood the docs correctly: > 2: Do "apt-get install a_particular_package", to upgrade or newly install a > particular package. > Do this to upgrade or newly install individual packages as needed. It will a

upgrading strategy

2001-10-22 Thread Aurelio Turco
Of all the Linux Distributions, Debian is said to have the most advanced packaging system. I regard the packaging system as very important. So, I will be installing Debian (probably 2.2r2, from CD). But before I do that, I would like to clarify what the recommended upgrade strategy is. I mean: