On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > [Note: this is a repost, since nobody responded to it, yet I find it > hard to believe that nobody knows the answer to my question.] > > Hi, > > Yesterday I wondered how much MBs I'd have to download to upgrade my > hamm > system (plus *some* slink stuff in there) to slink, so I set my > sources.list > and did 'apt-get update' + 'apt-get upgrade' (and answered 'no' ;).
You most likely have a large number of packages in the held state, these will not be upgraded automatically, you should use dselect to unhold them. Jason