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Re: eth0 down (using Sarge)



On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:58:10AM -0600, David Burgess wrote:

> ... I never run apt-get upgrade, only apt-get dist-upgrade. This ensures
> that upgraded packages will have any new dependencies they may need, while
> a simple upgrade will not, possibly leaving you with broken packages.

This is completely wrong.  "upgrade" does in fact get all dependencies.  It
doesn't get "suggested" packages, but that will never break anything
(assuming the packages aren't flawed).
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Carl Fink             carl@fink.to
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