Edgy in the news

[Scott]

Matt Zimmerman spake thusly on 10/31/2006 10:54 AM:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 02:22:10PM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
>> I'd like to see a list of actual reasons apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't
>> work. It's been working fine for me.
>>
>> Yeah, I understand it might try to remove stuff... which is of course
>> why you don't let it. apt has never been 100% hands off.
> 
> That's the problem exactly.  When using apt-get to upgrade, you need to pay
> careful attention that it isn't doing something inappropriate, and making
> that judgement often requires intimate knowledge of what's been changed from
> one release to the next.  It isn't something we can expect the average user
> to do, which is why we have an upgrade tool.

I've never tried the upgrade tool. I'm an "old school" OS upgrade
(regardless of what OS it is) and backup personal files (e.g. ~ ) and do
a clean install.

But I'm curious. is there a CLI version of the upgrade tool.  I'm not
particularly fond of the applet that notifies me of upgrades.  I prefer
doing that from the CLI in a terminal. I like to see what's going on.

If there is such a version of it, I might give it a try next time around
and see how it goes (I'll still back up though, just in case).

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