Re: dumb question about blind upgrades....

2006-11-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:05:37PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Today I typed in apt-get upgrade as root and the machine updated the package > list and > installed 4 more packages and upgraded a lot of security features. > > My fairly dumb question is: did I just get the security package

Re: dumb question about blind upgrades....

2006-11-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 13:05 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian people, [...snip...] > I would even go as far as to deliberately avoid using any package in any > configuration that would make the upgrade harder. Provided the basic > functions above work well, this could go a long way

dumb question about blind upgrades....

2006-11-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian people, I noticed some discussion on the list about blind upgrades. I assume this means that you type apt-get upgrade as root on your machine and let it run as it wishes.. I use Sarge 3.1 r3 on a 1200 MHz AMD Duron chip on a bog standard PC. I loaded it using 15 CD's I downl