Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:54:06AM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:13:30AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > Jon Dowland wrote:
> > > Please note that you are advised to *not do this*, but to
> > > *always* read the release notes for the relevant
> > 
> > you certainly noticed that I had there aptitude upgrade (not dist-upgrade),
> > right?
> 
> It should be noted that the names for the operations are somewhat
> misleading: 'aptitude upgrade' will happily upgrade your packages
> across release boundaries (i.e., from woody to sarge). If I remember
> correctly, 'dist-upgrade' got its name because it is smarter about
> resolving the vast numbers of potentially altered dependencies; thus,
> it makes upgrading to a new release easier (typically), but it is
> certainly not the only tool to do it.

I remember I did the sarge->etch upgrade when etch wasn't stable yet.
aptitude dist-upgrade did most of it, but then a few things still 
remained unupdated.  Repeating aptitude dist-upgrade seemed to do the 
trick.  All except a few holdouts whuch succumbed to an aptitude upgrade 
a few weeks later.

Before etch becomes stable, all this kind of glitch should have been 
ironed out.

-- hendrik