[PlanetCCRMA] apt upgrade v's dist-upgrade
Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Tue May 27 10:13:01 PDT 2003
> Is there any difference between the two? I just realised that the website
> says to use dist-upgrade and I've been using just upgrade (guess I started
> using it my accident).
the apt-get man page says:
dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the func-
tion of upgrade, also intelligently handles chang-
ing dependencies with new versions of packages;
apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system,
and it will attempt to upgrade the most important
packages at the expense of less important ones if
necessary.
I guess upgrade will never try to erase a package at all... I always use
dist-upgrade so I don't really know.
-- Fernando
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