Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

[montefin <montefin@finux.com>]

Raghavendra,

Great idea. Yes, I just did it, as root, using the following commands:

# cd /var/cache/apt
# mkdir sim-logs
# apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade | cat > sim-logs/apt-sim.txt

then

# less sim-logs/apt-sim.txt

to read it.

Thanks,

montefin


Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
> 
> montefin wrote:
> 
> > I avoided some problems by doing:
> > apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade
> >
> 
> Can U please elaborate on this ?  Can U
> pipe this to get some sort of a log ?
> 
> Tnx for this nifty point..real good !!
> 
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