Re: To get GNOME2, should I Upgrade or Dist-Upgrade or... ?

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:11:10PM +0200, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:56:38 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I personnaly do it like this : i always use upgrade, and once that is
> > done, if they were hold packages, i install them one bye one (or in
> > block) and verify that nothing untoward happens. This is the safest way
> 
> I use:
> apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> 
> Then it tells if and what it will remove. 

Yes, you can also do it like that, but you will have to do an upgrade
and then hand install if you are not satisfied with the -u dist-upgrade
result anyway, so why not do it directly.

also the advantage of doing it in two times is that it separate things,
that you can upgrade what is upgradeable, and that you can after sort
the special case by hand, maybe you will want to remove some additional
stuff that is not listed or something such (like when a package was
using an older library, and a newer replaces it, maybe you would want to
remove the older library if nobody uses it anymore, there is really no
reason to have all the different versions of a same package instaled if
nobody uses them).

> I saw you cross posted to debian-users. Is that right?

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Sven Luther