Re: apt-get upgrade vs. apt-get dist-upgrade confusion.
The Natural Philosopher writes:
Then apt-get upgrade will install the latest versions of everything in
the current distro
I wrote:
It will also remove anything that has been replaced or obsoleted by
anything in the most recent release in your sources.list
I meant that _dist-upgrade_ will do that, of course. upgrade will never
remove anything. This may mean that it will be unable to upgrade some
packages.
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John Hasler
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