Re: How stable is SID?

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:44:01PM +0000, Lee Braiden wrote:
> Use a frontend like synaptic to update your lists of software, and it'll tell 
> you what's new.  When you choose to upgrade stuff, it'll tell you what will 
> be removed (or whatever) by the upgrade, and you'll again have the chance to 
> back out.

Note that you can get all of this information with the command-line
apt-get by creating a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ (I usually call it
"local") with the following contents:

APT {
  Get {
   Show-Upgraded "true";
  }
}

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