Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

[Daryl Styrk <darylstyrk@gmail.com>]

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Ken Heard wrote:
> I had so many untold miseries upgrading from sarge to etch that I
> promised myself never to upgrade again -- only to do a completely fresh
> installation.
> 
> - From this thread I now see three *-upgrade commands mentioned for
> aptitude: dist-upgrade, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade.  Only
> dist-upgrade is mentioned in the aptitude man page and in Debian
> Reference.  Does any Debian documentation refer to these other two
> commands?  (I could not find any.)  If not, why not?
> 
> Regards, Ken Heard
> 
> 


I believe you can attribute this to your version of aptitude.  I have
0.4.11.11 from Lenny and I believe full-upgrade has replaced dist-upgrade.

for example
# aptitude upgrade
W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead.

Daryl




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