RE: Best route to testing/unstable?
Actually, dist-upgrade is probably the method of choice for all upgrades
once you start using unstable. dist-upgrade tends to resolve dependencies
and such that upgrade does not. Since these sorts of things changes
(potentially) frequently under unstable it helps keep things running right.
--jeh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pawel Dudek [mailto:paweld@debian.pl-linux.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Best route to testing/unstable?
>
>
> I always use apt-get upgrade. Hm, maybe I've luck that
> everything going
> good by this way of upgrade. However, thanks for correct my mistake.
> Best regards,
> Pawel
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote:
> > > Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or
> sid archives, and
> > > then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade.
> >
> > Always use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when upgrading between
> distributions
> > rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. The latter won't generally
> make the right
> > decisions.
> >
> > --
> > Colin Watson
> [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> >
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