Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:33:06 +1000, Michael Lake uttered
There is no -V but I presume you mean --no-act.
I did that i.e. apt-get --no-act dist-upgrade
and it listed 120 packages that will be upgraded !
Perl is amoung those to be upgraded.
so I presume that I'll go with the above. It's a bit nerve racking :-)
--no-act won't actually do the upgrade, it will just show you what it
will do. -V looks to be a sarge-ism, which shows the versions of
upgraded and install packages. I personally have switched over to
aptitude quite some time ago, which actually keeps logs of what
actions it performed during a install/upgrade.
Ah yes. I see that on the virtual server running stable there is no -V
but there is such a option to apt-get on my laptop running testing.
Basically then for the virt server I should do a dist-upgrade with the
current sources.list set at stable and that will bring all packages up
to the current Debian release?
After that I'll have the -V option to use.
Mike
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