Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> I'm too paranoid to use apt-get upgrade... at least with dselect you
> actually get so see *which* packages are getting upgraded/removed/etc.
> I can't see how blindly using apt-get upgrade can be safer. Anyone
> that trashes their system with dselect really should learn to pay a
> bit more attention to what they do. :)
Try the '-u' and '-s' options for apt-get, they will show what it is going
to do in a generally mode compact form than dselect does. Dselect doesn't
actually tell you exctly what is going to happen, upgrades are done
silently unless there is a hold..
Jason
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