On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: > I'm too paranoid to use apt-get upgrade... at least with dselect you > actually get so see *which* packages are getting upgraded/removed/etc. > I can't see how blindly using apt-get upgrade can be safer. Anyone > that trashes their system with dselect really should learn to pay a > bit more attention to what they do. :)
Try the '-u' and '-s' options for apt-get, they will show what it is going to do in a generally mode compact form than dselect does. Dselect doesn't actually tell you exctly what is going to happen, upgrades are done silently unless there is a hold.. Jason