Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 18:43, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:27:52PM -0400, David Crane wrote:
> > In the other branch of this thread, I asked whether multiple rounds of
> > "apt-get upgrade" would be needed to bring a 3.0rev1 "woody" distribution
> > up to a current "testing" distribution.
>
> Here's the documentation of 'upgrade' from the apt-get(8) man page: note
> the "under no circumstances" bit, which is important for a distribution
> like testing or unstable where packages are in substantial flux.
>
> upgrade
> upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all
> packages currently installed on the system from the
> sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages
> currently installed with new versions available are
> retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are cur-
> rently installed packages removed, or packages not
> already installed retrieved and installed. New versions
> of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded
> without changing the install status of another package
> will be left at their current version. An update must be
> performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions
> of packages are available.
>
> Repeated runs of 'apt-get upgrade' should be no more effective than a
> single run.
Note, though, that "apt-get upgrade" plus the manual "apt-get install"
of the held-back packages works perfectly.
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