On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:19:46PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: > I can't find anything in the docs to give me a clue. > If I do apt-get dist-upgrade, how do I direct it which of [stable, > testing, unstable] to target? Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
Um, you're misunderstanding the whole thing, but you were helped along by a misleadingly named option. The difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is this: dist-upgrade automatically tries to resolve problems with dependencies when upgrading packages. That is, for instance, it will remove conflicting packages. > Dist-upgrade seems to have been the cause of my present brokenness -- a > lot of packages got removed or downgraded. Right now I've > fiddled sources.list so only 'testing' stuff is visible, since that is > where I want to go. Isn't there a "better" way? That's how dist-upgrade is SUPPOSED to work. It still upgrades to whatever distro you list in sources.list. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
