Bill Wohler([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 'apt-get upgrade' is restricted (and therefore safer) in that: > > > > under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or > > packages not already installed retrieved and installed. > > > > This isn't sufficient for 'unstable', as both of the package-state changes > > above are required regularly. > > RTFM (release notes, actually) tells me that I should use dist-upgrade > when switching distros, but RTFM (that I could find) does not tell me > when to use dist-upgrade when not switching distros. > > How does one know when to use dist-upgrade? Is there an announcement > email somewhere? Does aptitude give some sort of a sign (that I'm > missing)? Is this something that you just run regularly? > > If this is something you run regularly on unstable, then I suppose one > should also run it regularly on testing. Right? In that case, I should > probably run it on my testing systems, eh? Since I had never run > dist-upgrade during the entire sarge lifecycle, this should be > interesting...
I have been running testing for a year with a few unstable packages thrown in and do a dselect update && apt-get dist-upgrade 3-4 times a week and have never had a problem. The threads about upgrade/dist-upgrade have not made much sense to me. Have very recently been using wajig daily-upgrade which does the same thing with less typing. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH'. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]