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Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable



Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com> writes:

> At 10:56 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, Mark wrote:
>> I installed unstable about a month ago and have had nothing but good
>> times.  I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for
>> problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that
>> many (a few regarding kde / libfam issues).  But, I'm curious to know
>> how safe/dangerous it is to just say 'apt-get upgrade' presently.
>
> Do an 'apt-get -u upgrade' and it will show you what's going to be
> installed, removed, upgraded, and so on. 

No, it'll only show what's going to be upgraded.  An 'apt-get upgrade'
will only ever upgrade packages; it won't try to install or remove
anything.  You must be thinking of 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.

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