Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com> writes:
> On 24-Oct-2001 Brian Nelson wrote:
> >> When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a
> >> "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
> >
> > Yup.
> >
>
> technically, apt-get upgrade will work. dist-upgrade has a few more rules in
> it to make large upgrades go smoothly.
An 'apt-get upgrade' would likely leave you with many (100s?) of
packages held back. It only upgrades packages currently installed,
and will never install new packages or remove old ones.
An 'apt-get dist-upgrade', on the other hand, would most likely not
hold any packages back, as it "intelligently handles changing
dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a 'smart'
conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most
important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary."
Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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