On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 09:02, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:
> I believe (other Debian gurus will have to correct me) that it's
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" and since you mention it - I'm not clear as to
> why one might run that as opposed to just the apt-get upgrade which
> upgrades all programs loaded on the computer. So any enlightment, as
> always, is welcome :)
The way I understand it, upgrade will *only* upgrade existing files.
dist-upgrade will upgrade files and install any *new* dependencies.
So if, say, bash adds GTK support (heh), and debian makes a new package
for it that depends on GTK, but you don't have GTK installed, "upgrade"
would not upgrade bash even though there's a new version, "dist-upgrade"
would upgrade bash and install GTK.
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