[PLUG] Dapper Drake upgrade

Charlie Schluting charlie at schluting.com
Tue Jun 6 17:19:01 UTC 2006


Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Monday 05 June 2006 9:42 pm, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
>> EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! Make sure you type  dist-*upgrade*  rather than 
>>  *upgrade* . The process will totally hose your machine and render it 
>> *completely unbootable* otherwise.
>>
> 
> That doesn't even make sense, because it's routine Debian maintenance to run 
> apt-get upgrade regularly. I have it in a daily cron job. That's how you get 
> updates and patches without pain, and keep everything current. At what magic 
> point must you stop before running a dist-upgrade? I'm starting to think 
> Ubuntu folks don't understand Debian very well.


Not after changing sources.lst... that's the key.
Do you really think they could have made such a usable system without
understanding apt?? :)

-Charlie



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