Re: difference between "do-release-upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade"

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan is talking about circular dependencies and other such like rubbish.
There have been those who hosed their installation because they used
apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade. And there have been those who have not
been toasted by upgrading with apt-get dist-upgrade. It all pretty much
depends on what you have or have not installed.

I've just used Synaptic for all upgrades from 7.something to 10.04.
No visible problems so far. Box is a pretty standard machine with
on-board Intel graphics chip and ethernet.

Should I be doing something else? Should I take some steps to
clean up any possible oddities before the next upgrade?

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