Re: APT-GET UPGRADE VS DIST-UPGRADE
On 4/14/05, Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> dist-upgrade is stupid will happily rip out half your packages. I also
> learned the hard way. dselect does far less damage. To upgrade with
> dselect just change APT::Default-Release in apt.conf
I've routinely used dist-upgrade pretty much since first installing
Debian at home. I'm running sid, though, so it's not uncommon for
dependencies to change. In any case, apt-get doesn't do anything
unless you tell it to proceed, so when you lose half of your
installation it could be argued that it's a user problem as much as a
dist-upgrade problem. If you want to automate your upgrades, then
dist-upgrade is probably not what you want, but then you can't get the
benefits of apt-listbugs either.
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Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
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