On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:13:30AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > > Please note that you are advised to *not do this*, but to > > *always* read the release notes for the relevant > > you certainly noticed that I had there aptitude upgrade (not dist-upgrade), > right?
It should be noted that the names for the operations are somewhat misleading: 'aptitude upgrade' will happily upgrade your packages across release boundaries (i.e., from woody to sarge). If I remember correctly, 'dist-upgrade' got its name because it is smarter about resolving the vast numbers of potentially altered dependencies; thus, it makes upgrading to a new release easier (typically), but it is certainly not the only tool to do it. Good luck, --j
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