Scary upgrade thing

[Simon Rönnqvist]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 15:36, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Pawel Kowalak wrote:
>
>
>> On Friday 14 October 2005 13:36, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:
>>
>>> I just upgraded to breezy (I've got both ubuntu and kubuntu-desktops
>>> installed). It seems like when I try to install something containing
>>> qt-stuff the following happends. (apt-get wants to remove a bunch of
>>> stuff)
>>> Please also note the GPG thing when I do "apt-get update" it could
>>> have something to do with this problem, but I don't understand how.
>>>
>>
>> Always do apt-get dist-upgrade.
>>
>
> I'd disagree slightly - I think he was right to try "upgrade" first -
> because it won't do anything scary.  In this case, though, it  
> wouldn't do
> anything at all (probably because there's a libc transition in there).
>
> After upgrade, dist-upgrade.  There's certainly no way you can just  
> randomly
> install a single package and expect everything to work.
>
> As for the GPG thing, it's exactly what it says - such errors occur  
> either
> when you can't retrieve the keys (stupid firewall at work blocks such
> traffic!) or when the keys are actually not valid (a problem I've  
> seen too
> often in Ubuntu), and so you need to be able to assure yourself  
> these are
> genuine packages.  It's never _likely_ to be a problem, but somebody
> _could_ potentially be trying to load trojans to your system.  It's
> reasonably safe to assume that it has nothing to do with your problem.
> -- 
> derek


   Hi!

So what you are suggesting is to not touch dist-upgrade in case it's  
suggesting these kind of radical things (as shown in my last mail)?  
Instead I should just wait and see if I can get this fixed later on  
just using upgrade, right?

   cheers, Simon
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