Actually, dist-upgrade is probably the method of choice for all upgrades
once you start using unstable. dist-upgrade tends to resolve dependencies
and such that upgrade does not. Since these sorts of things changes
(potentially) frequently under unstable it helps keep things running right.

--jeh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pawel Dudek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Best route to testing/unstable?
> 
> 
> I always use apt-get upgrade. Hm, maybe I've luck that 
> everything going
> good by this way of upgrade. However, thanks for correct my mistake.
> Best regards, 
> Pawel
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Pawel Dudek wrote:
> > > Change apt sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to woody or 
> sid archives, and
> > > then run apt-get update and next apt-get upgrade.
> > 
> > Always use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when upgrading between 
> distributions
> > rather than 'apt-get upgrade'. The latter won't generally 
> make the right
> > decisions.
> > 
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