Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

[Todd Suess <tsuess@inspace.net>]

Ross,

Well, APT seems to be fairly intelligent in how it handles this
particular file anyway.  Once I did the update I did an
apt-get upgrade -s just to see what it would do.   It held back
like 197 packages and updated 127 existing ones.  Most
of the ones held back seemed to be involved with actually
upgrading from slink to potato.  I suspect that if I had issued
the command apt-get dist-upgrade it would have done more
along the lines of actually upgrading from slink to potato.

If one does want to completely upgrade the OS from stable
to the unstable branch, would apt-get dist-upgrade actually
do that, or would some other procedure need to be
done also?  or manually, thru dselect? (shudder).  ;)

Todd





> Thanks for posting this.
>
> When one lists both stable and unstable distributions, who wins (for
> example, if you use the automatic update procedure)?
>
> I might want to get a thing or two off unstable, but I don't want to just
> pull everything since it might be, well, unstable :)
>
> At 09:37 PM 9/25/99 -0400, Todd Suess wrote:
> >I ended up creating a good (I think) sources.list file for apt-get ftp,
> >so I wanted to share it with the group in case it could benefit anyone
> >else, especially those to whom non-us.debian.org seems to have
> >dropped off the map (Don't feel bad, I have an OC3 and *I* can't get
> >there either.)   ;)
> >
> >/etc/apt/sources.list
> >
> >deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> >deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> >deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists stable/non-US/binary-i386/
> >deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists unstable/non-US main
> >contrib non-free
>
>
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