Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch

[cbannister@slingshot.co.nz]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:07:45AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>   because i keep a second bootable partition a
> few versions back i am a bit more brave/stupid
> at times and just do the usual routine:
> 
> =====
> 
>   $ apt-get update
>   $ apt-get upgrade
> 
>   # and then see what is held back before doing the

I suggest doing:

apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs

just before:

>   $ apt-get dist-upgrade

See:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg00279.html

:)

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