Re: difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:28:32AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> vim-rt
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> bonobo libbonobo2 vim
> The following packages have been kept back
> gnucash
> 1 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
[...]
> Why the difference? The apt-get manpage states that upgrade will not
> remove packages, so that explains the vim package, if it replaces vim-rt.
> Would the bonobo and libbonobo2 packages be for the same reason?
Chances are that the one upgraded package (not shown above) wanted
bonobo. 'upgrade' won't install new packages either.
If you always want to see what packages apt-get is upgrading, put this
line in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "yes";
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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