Debian unstable upgrade

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 19, 2008 9:32 AM, Merv Curley <mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> At one time I used some apt-get option to carry on an upgrade I believe, but
> it isn't in my memory bank or notes.

You can twiddle bits on and off in /var/lib/dpkg/info to get further...

> Perhaps an upgrade to unstable and then a dist-upgrade is a better idea?
> Since nothing has happened to Etch yet, I could just quit, do the upgrade and
> it would use the files already downloaded? Then do a dist-upgrade if all is
> well?

I *never* use 'upgrade'.  Always use 'dist-upgrade'.  This is
considered the "full-upgrade" option, and is actually the new term for
newer versions of apt.  Older revisions relied on
upgrade/dist-upgrade, but these have been deprecated.  Now use
safe-upgrade/full-upgrade instead.  I recommend 'full-upgrade'
usage...
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