[vox-tech] Installing subversion from sid into a sarge box
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Jan 5 11:37:39 PST 2005
Quoting Chris Jenks (jenks at resonance.org):
> I've been wondering - when Woody is replaced by Sarge, will those
> following the stable track have to apt-get dist-upgrade, rather than
> apt-get upgrade, on release day?
Er, this will seem lame, but I'm not sure. I personally always do
"dist-upgrade".
The difference between the two is pretty subtle: I vaguely recall that
dist-upgrade does more intensive handling of dependencies, and is more
likely to implicitly introduce new packages you didn't specifically ask
for by name. When I was brand-new to all this, the dist-upgrade
treatment struck me as better on balance, and so I've always used it
instead of "upgrade".
By the way, consider doing "aptitude upgrade" (or aptitude dist-upgrade)
rather than using apt-get directly. Joey Hess has made an excellent
case for why. See: "Aptitude" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/
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