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Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?



On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 08:26 -0400, Stephen wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:39:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > Stephen wrote:
> 
> <snippage>
> 
> > > Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd comment on
> > > the line above :
> > > 
> > > I run aptitude from the command line ; 'aptitude dist-upgrade' works fine
> > > for me. It seems many people aren't aware that aptitude can run like
> > > apt-get, using a command line interface.
> > 
> > Except that I want to _see_ what it will do before running the
> > dist-upgrade, like running aptitude interactively and hitting "U",
> > except that it is a dist-upgrade instead of just upgrade.
> 
> That's done easily enough via the command line with the '-s' switch.

Okay, except that I like to be able to modify what aptitude is going to
do.



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