package installation problem

Georgina Joyce gena at genaj.plus.com
Wed Apr 19 07:00:29 EDT 2006


Hi

Yes, I quite agree.  But why wait until new year? <grin>.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:24:03AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
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> Hi Gina,
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> I usually do a dist-upgrade just about every day. If I neglect it for 
> several days I might do a simple upgrade first, but since I try to keep 
> on top of the rapidly changing material on unstable, dist-upgrade makes 
> the most sense. A simple upgrade will never add anything not already 
> present, or remove anything in order to upgrade a package, and so 
> sometimes things get put on hold. Doing a dist-upgrade routinely will do 
> the necessary adds and removes required to upgrade a package, and the 
> holds soon get resolved.
> 
> No second thoughts here at all about unstable. My next New Year 
> Resolution will be to pay more attention to the contents of the 
> apt-changes reports that accompany an upgrade. 
> 
> Chuck
> 
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