On Saturday 02 October 2004 21:19, 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? > > 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? > > It looked as though the "-o=whatever" was the trick, but I can't put > anything there that doesn't get a complaint.
If you wish to go from one branch to another (e.g., stable to testing) you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, then do your update/dist-upgrade. dist-upgrade handles dependencies differently from "upgrade", which will never remove anything - "dist-upgrade" might. You still need to change the branch in sources.list to dist-upgrade to a different branch. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ( t | i | m | @ | i | t | . | k | p | t | . | c | c ) \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ GPG key fingerprint = 1DEE CD9B 4808 F608 FBBF DC21 2807 D7D3 09CA 85BF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
