Re: what does [shellutils on hurd] mean?

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:41:52AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> I got no idea what it means, but: Why the hell are you trying to do a
> dist-upgrade when you are running
> woody!?!?!?!??!?!?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, one might like the fact that dist-upgrade will make sure
dependencies are handled correctly.  Possibly a good thing when tracking
and unstable branch since the dependencies sometimes change.

from apt-get upgrade man page:
   under no cir­cumstances are currently installed packages removed, or
   packages not already installed retrieved and installed.

vs. dist-upgrade:
  dist-upgrade,in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also
intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages;
  
 
> Ron Rademaker
> 
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Dan Christensen wrote:
> 
> > Lately when I've been doing 'apt-get -s dist-upgrade' on my woody
> > system I often get dozens of things like
> > 
> > Inst kernel-package [shellutils on hurd]
> > 
> > Can someone tell me what this means?  Thanks.
> > 
> > Dan

Something to do with the Hurd port?? Did anything bad happen?

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