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Re: debian 2.2r3 ?



On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:16PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> 
> I track unstable/sid and also routinely do "apt-get upgrade" with no
> apparent problems. Every once in a while, I'll answer 'no' to doing the
> upgrade and then do a "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" and will have the exact
> same packages to be updated. Other times it will want to update
> different ones.
> 
> I must admit that I'm confused... is there much reason to do "upgrade"
> vs "dist-upgrade". I get the idea I should start using the latter just
> about all the time.

i don't see any point to using upgrade instead of dist-upgrade.  

> So that's why "dist-upgrade" sometimes want to add new packages that I
> either don't want or don't currently have installed, right ?? I suppose
> I could make a note of these packages and then remove them right after
> it's finished.

see the man page on a description of what dist-upgrade does.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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