On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:39:37PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 21:50, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 11/05/03 Neal Lippman did speaketh: > > > > > I'm wondering why so many packages get held back. I run testing, and > > > when I do an apt-get upgrade, about 10-15 packages are being held back. > > > I would have assumed that all packages in testing were "up to date" for > > > the testing release, so why do things get held back? > > > > They probably require new packages to be installed. Remember that > > upgrade never installs anything new. It only upgrades existing packages. > > If you want to clear most of those away, use dist-upgrade, which will > > install new packages. > > > Is there a way to determine if that is the case? 'apt-get -s dist-upgrade', I guess. -s == simulate. > Also, what happens if > I am already running testing and do a dist-upgrade? Does that just grab > new packages that are needed for currently installed packages? Well, since testing is updated on a daily basis, it'll do more than that in practice. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: JUWTF encryption SP4 NSA asset SCUD missile Glock
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