RE: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.
Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink is?
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> From: Rafael Kitover[SMTP:rkitover@io.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 8:53 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
> > thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
> >
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is set to get files from "slink" or
> "frozen" to do this.
>
> >
> > Is this at all dangerous?
>
> By definition, installing unreleased software is dangerous. But alot less
> dangerous than "potato" (unstable) :)
>
> >
> > What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
>
> apt handles these things very gracefully, and will pick up where it left
> off last time.
>
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> Rafael Kitover
> rkitover@io.com
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