Re: dist upgrade

To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: dist upgrade
From: Moritz Schulte <tux@gmx.li>
Date: 03 Jan 2001 02:46:44 +0100
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In-reply-to: Pann McCuaig's message of "Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:16:12 -0800"
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Pann McCuaig <pann@ourmanpann.com> writes:

> You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to
> the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato
> current. apt-get upgrade is what you want.

See apt-get(8).
'dist-upgrade' is just more intelligent when it comes to dependency
resolution than 'upgrade'.

BTW: There's nothing special about an upgrade from one release to the
next. It's just updating of packages.

	moritz
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