upgrade vs dist-upgrade

[Thilo Six]

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Daniel Carrera schrieb am 10.04.2006 18:55:
> Hello,
> 
> I was hoping someone could tell me more about the difference between an
> upgrade and a dist-upgrade.
> 
> I know that upgrade is safer, I know that dist-upgrade is intended for
> upgrading the distro (e.g. Breezy to Dapper). I know that dist-upgrade
> does a more agressive dependency resolution and that might break things,
> but this agressiveness is necessary when you upgrade to a new distro
> (e.g. Dapper).
> 
> But could someone give me a concrete example (made up examples are fine)
> of something that dist-upgrade would do but upgrade would not? I want to
> know more about what's happening under the hood.
> 
> Thank you for the help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.

As long as you do *NOT* change the sources.list, it is just the same.
I do dist-upgrade everyday to perform security updates.

But when you are changing the sources.list (let it point to a new
release) then dist-upgarde will not only upgrade packages with a higher
Version number (as upgrade does) instead it also upgrades all it´s
dependencies.

bye Thilo
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