On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:17:08AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > You clearly haven't grasped the philosophy of Debian. The above > paragraph betrays a gross misunderstanding on your part. > > You *don't* "wipe and reinstall" to do a Debian upgrade. You run: > > # apt-get update; apt-get -u dist-upgrade > > ...and your packages are updated in place. > > No reboot necessary, with the exception of kernel updates, and IIRC a > recommended restart (single-user was sufficient) for a really hairy libc > update.
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