On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:10:54AM +0100, Remi VANICAT wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Because it is easier, and they did not read the documentation ? > > Yes, and no, from the man : > dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the function of upgrade, > also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new ver- > sions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution > system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important pack- > ages 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.
Well, nothing is said on when to use it here. > And from the Apt HOWTO, section about upgrading package > There's no clean solution for this first case. For the second case, > it's sufficient to run apt-get install for the specific package in > question, as this will download the dependencies. An even cleaner > solution is to use dist-upgrade. See section Upgrading to a new > release, Section 3.5. Mmm, this does not seem to agree with what apt people told me some time ago. Also, i think the fact that you should not use dist-uprades is more based on experience than on actual rule, as you have shown. > Of course some time it failed. but the man doesn't say that it is only > for distribution upgrade. (And I always do a double check before > accepting any upgrade or dist-upgrade). Well, the name of the option sugests it, does it not ? dist-upgrade, dist -> distribution :)) Anyway, i have uploaded 3.04-14 this morning and not installed it on my system, and will check how apt-get does it works once it hits the archive. Friendly, Sven Luther
