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Re: Kernel version confusion



On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:04:08PM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > Are you using 'apt-get update' rather than 'dselect update'? If so,
> > use the latter instead. It's confusing, granted; the reasons are
> > mostly historical.
> 
> Well, ain't that a kick in the seat.  It looks like "dselect update"
> indeed brought in new packages.  Do I have to do everything thru
> dselect, like upgrade, or is "apt-get -u -d dist-upgrade" still
> usable?

No, 'dselect update' is the only thing that's absolutely necessary to
keep dselect's view of the world in sync.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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