Re: sid: Packages held back during upgrade

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Arthur Machlas
> <arthur.machlas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:57:01AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>>>>  On 8/30/2010 1:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
>>>> >I just did an apt-get upgrade. Hundreds of packages
>>>> >were held back.
>>>
>>>> apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>> Aptitude equivilant is ... aptitude full-upgrade?
>
> Yes but aptitude recognizes dist-upgrade.

I was just emailed off-list to read the man page, so here goes:

full-upgrade
           ...
           Note
           This command was originally named dist-upgrade for historical
           reasons, and aptitude still recognizes dist-upgrade as a synonym
           for full-upgrade.