Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:43:51PM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Please excuse the dumb question, but:
> 
> Is this still the recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch?:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
> 
> That page makes it out like using aptitude is somehow better than
> apt-get.  I've never used aptitude, only apt-get, I'm quite
> comfortable with all the apt-* tools. It apt-get dist-upgrade just as
> good?

Since the release hasn't changed, then yest the release notes are still
valid.

Then again, my upgrade ended up killing libc6 in the middle which gave
the system a heart attack.  I reinstalled.

Doug.