Re: APT-GET UPGRADE VS DIST-UPGRADE
Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Thanks James Vahn, for your reply. I'm not sure what's the difference
between KDE
and kde, meta package. However, I get the message that the KDE GUI
would still work
if I went ahead with the dist-upgrade. The message I got was similar to
your last example.
I did get an off-list response that explained fully what heppened with
KDE and Kvim which
I just posted. I installed gnome-vim(think that was the name) to satisy
the dependency and
apt-get dist-upgrade now does its thing without wanting to remove kde.
The new post should
be there shortly.
Thanks for all the responses. I get valuable information from all the
replys.
Leonard Chataqgnier
This is an interesting pile of confusion...
I've been using apt-get dist-upgrade for well over a year now and I
don't thing I've ever experienced a problem with packages. I'm pinned
to testing and sometimes will pick up packages that are in unstable.
But nothing has ever been removed that needed to be there.
At least nothing I missed.
There have been a number of times where packages are not upgraded
through dist-upgrade that can be either upgraded through 'upgrade' or by
dist-upgrade at a later time.
I was always under the impression that dist-upgrade can be described as
a less aggressive means of upgrading packages and when doing
distribution level upgrades (which are very large) it will be more
conservative about package upgrade/replacement. Because of this, you
may be necessary to run apt-get dist-upgrade several times in order to
upgrade the entire distro. IIRC upgrading from Debian 2.2 to 3.0
required three 'apt-get dist-upgrade' before all the packages were up to
date.
As a rule, I will run dist-upgrade while I'm on my current tree of
Testing. After I get the message that Debian has upgraded to it's next
version I reset my sources.list to 'stable' and stay there for a while.
I stick close to stable as I don't like surprises.
If Debian is able to increase their release frequency sufficiently, then
I can see some of my servers staying at stable and getting a workstation
at testing. Until then...
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