Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Silvan
> And dist-upgrade is for when you want to get all the new funky features. > Which many of us do :-). It only breaks things if the packages uploaded > by the maintainers are broken. Ok, that occasionally happens, which is > why you don't use "dist-upgrade" on your production servers except with >

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:02, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:22:40AM -0500, dircha wrote: > > > An equally adequate reference is available as: > > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README > > ...which is not too hard to paste: > > aptitude dist-upgrade > > This command will also attempt

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:22:40AM -0500, dircha wrote: > An equally adequate reference is available as: > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README ...which is not too hard to paste: aptitude dist-upgrade This command will also attempt to upgrade packages, but it is more aggressive about solving depe

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread dircha
cwinl wrote: hi all, i'm confused about several aptitude param. thank you all. I see that while dist-upgrade is documented in the aptitude documentation, it is not mentioned in the manual page. The aptitude manual page references the apt-get manual page ('man apt-get'). I suggest you take a look

what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-04 Thread cwinl
hi all, i'm confused about several aptitude param. thank you all. -- P4/2.4B ELSA 528/128 512MB DDR333 240GB MSI 845PE BenQ FP557s Pioneer DVD-120A LG GCE-8320B -- http://www.cwinl.com/ http://forum.lnnu.edu.cn/