On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:49:34PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Why "dist-upgrade"? It's a security fix for the same distro (Debian Etch).

Contrary to common wisdom (and intuition), dist-upgrade is not related
to upgrading between distros. The difference between it and upgrade is
that upgrade will not install new packages, only upgrade installed ones,
whereas dist-upgrade will also install new packages if newer
dependencies of existing packages require this. I personally always do
dist-upgrade, unless I have a very specific reason not to.
-- 
Didi


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