Re: sources.list: experimental
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:35:59PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> just a question:
>
> adding an experimental source to the sources list (just to install a special
> application from this), will an "aptitude upgrade" or "apt-get upgrade"
> overwrite ALL installed packages ?
upgrade doesn't do anything involving adding or removing packages.
dist-upgrade does, so really using anything other than dist-upgrade ever
is just a mistake. upgrade really shouldn't even be an option. At
least for apt-get. Perhaps aptitude behaves differently.
Other than that, as already mentioned you would have to specifically
specify experimental for a package to install that.
--
Len Sorensen
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