Re: Best route to testing/unstable?
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
While it probably won't break your system, you'll find in the long run
that many packages will be held back by 'upgrade', since it will never
install new packages nor remove old ones in its attempt to upgrade your
system, so it can never follow package rearrangements. See the
apt-get(8) man page.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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