Re: upgrading strategy

To: Aurelio Turco <azt@bom.gov.au>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: upgrading strategy
From: Danie Roux <droux@tuks.co.za>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:14:34 +0200
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:11:02AM +0000, Aurelio Turco wrote:
> 
> If I have understood the docs correctly:

>   2: Do "apt-get install a_particular_package", to upgrade or newly install a particular package.
>       Do this to upgrade or newly install individual packages as needed.
 
It will also install and configure the packages on which it depends.

>   5: Install again from scratch, to upgrade to a new release.
>       Do this only if your installed release is too far behind the release you wish to upgrade to.

This should not be necessary, because of Debian's great dependencies
system.

-- 
Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

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