Bob wrote:
Do I just change my sources from stable to testing and do and update followed by an upgrade, or do I do a dist-upgrade...? The reason I ask is that I haven't seen too much info on dist-upgrade and don't really understand how to use it.
When you do a regular 'upgrade', apt will only upgrade packages that do not require ANY packages to be uninstalled, or new ones to be installed. In the case of changing from Sarge to Etch that is likely to be a good number of packages that WILL NOT be upgraded as packages are split, renamed, depreciated and otherwise changed. This will leave you with a somewhat mixed distro box, which is potentially troublesome. If you do a 'dist-upgrade' it will get everything, INCLUDING new packages and deleting obsolete and renamed packages.
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