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Re: woody-to-sarge test upgrade



On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:44:38PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:43:49AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Yes...  I did not know "aptitude dist-upgrade" was different from "apt
> > dist-upgrade".  The woody aptitude manpage does not mention any command
> > line directive, and the sid manpage does not document the dist-upgrade
> > target, this is bug #268697.
> > 
> > For woody the recommend way was to use dselect, but this is an
> > interactive command so I could not use it in an automated test
> > framework.
> 
> dselect accepts command-line parameters too, but I don't know if that
> would be sufficient.

Ah thanks! It looks sufficient to do 'dselect update && dselect install',
but apparently it is not better than 'apt-get dist-upgrade', so I will
stick to 'aptitude dist-upgrade'.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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