dumb question about blind upgrades....

2006-11-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian people, I noticed some discussion on the list about blind upgrades. I assume this means that you type apt-get upgrade as root on your machine and let it run as it wishes.. I use Sarge 3.1 r3 on a 1200 MHz AMD Duron chip on a bog standard PC. I loaded it using 15 CD's I

Re: dumb question about blind upgrades....

2006-11-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 13:05 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian people, [...snip...] I would even go as far as to deliberately avoid using any package in any configuration that would make the upgrade harder. Provided the basic functions above work well, this could go a long way in

Re: dumb question about blind upgrades....

2006-11-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:05:37PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Today I typed in apt-get upgrade as root and the machine updated the package list and installed 4 more packages and upgraded a lot of security features. My fairly dumb question is: did I just get the security package