Alex Mandel wrote: > Hamish wrote: >> Alex wrote: >>> More in general in setup.sh shouldn't we use apt-get >>> dist-upgrade instead of just upgrade to play it safe? >> >> don't you mean "apt-get safe-upgrade" ?? >> >> >> dist-upgrade is used to update from 9.10 to 10.04 once it is released. and >> this generally requires a bit of handholding and >> care so should not be done automatically. >> >> if you need dist-upgrade it indicates that something is broken >> or not fully upgraded from e.g. 8.10 if your setup. >> >> if ubuntu is releasing in-distrib security updates which require >> dist-upgrade to work, well fooey on them. >> >> >> ?, >> Hamish > > To clarify the naming of commands is kind of misleading: > dist-upgrade is not the command on Ubuntu to change from 9.04 to 9.10 > (example). It's actually what you would think would be called > smart-upgrade or safe-upgrade. It actually matches the synaptic smart > update option. > > "dist-upgrade > dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of > upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new > versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, > and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the > expense of less important ones if necessary. The > /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to > retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a > mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual > packages." > > safe-upgrade is an aptitude command not an apt command, go figure... > > Alex
Note: I realize it might behave the way you suggested if one manually changes the source list to point to the next version of Ubuntu. Alex _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
