Re: debian 2.2r3 ?
upgrade only upgrades what you already have and won't delete any packages,
dist-upgrade will add new packages that got added into the requirements
and delete new conflicts. Use upgrade regularly, and use dist-upgrade
only when you have a real need and are willing to deal with the
consequences (one dist-upgrade I remember nuked most of my perl-based
programs :( ).
On 20 Apr 2001, Jorge Santos wrote:
>Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
>But surelly upgrade has some use, I mean, there's probably some
>situation in which you would prefer to use upgrade in place of
>dist-upgrade, could someone please shed some light in this isue?
>
>jorge santos
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