Bob wrote:
Do I just change my sources from stable to testing and do and update
followed by an upgrade, or do I do a dist-upgrade...? The reason I ask
is that I haven't seen too much info on dist-upgrade and don't really
understand how to use it.
When you do a regular 'upgrade', apt will only upgrade packages that do
not require ANY packages to be uninstalled, or new ones to be
installed. In the case of changing from Sarge to Etch that is likely to
be a good number of packages that WILL NOT be upgraded as packages are
split, renamed, depreciated and otherwise changed. This will leave you
with a somewhat mixed distro box, which is potentially troublesome. If
you do a 'dist-upgrade' it will get everything, INCLUDING new packages
and deleting obsolete and renamed packages.
HTH
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Marc Shapiro
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What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!
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