Quoting Chris Jenks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been wondering - when Woody is replaced by Sarge, will those > following the stable track have to apt-get dist-upgrade, rather than > apt-get upgrade, on release day?
Er, this will seem lame, but I'm not sure. I personally always do "dist-upgrade". The difference between the two is pretty subtle: I vaguely recall that dist-upgrade does more intensive handling of dependencies, and is more likely to implicitly introduce new packages you didn't specifically ask for by name. When I was brand-new to all this, the dist-upgrade treatment struck me as better on balance, and so I've always used it instead of "upgrade". By the way, consider doing "aptitude upgrade" (or aptitude dist-upgrade) rather than using apt-get directly. Joey Hess has made an excellent case for why. See: "Aptitude" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
