Upgrade to final or not?

[Erik Bågfors]

Normally when doing an upgrade without changing distribution version
just do "upgrade".  When you switch from warty to hoary in the future
you should most likely run dist-upgrade.

Regards,
Erik

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:30:10 -0400, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going to butt in with a (hopefully) somewhat related question that
> may be obvious to more technical Debian/Ubuntu users, but I haven't
> seen covered anywhere yet.
> 
> Synaptic gives two different upgrade options - default and smart. My
> understanding is that default means "upgrade" and smart means
> "dist-upgrade". The way the popup in Synaptic describes it, the
> default upgrade won't upgrade anything that has unmet dependencies,
> but the smart upgrade will try to fulfill dependencies. Before I
> learned anything about apt-get, the smart option sounded like a better
> idea to me, so that's what I've been doing on a semi-regular basis.
> 
> Could someone with a little more knowledge than me (it doesn't take
> much!) explain why you would or would not want to use either of these
> two options?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Aaron
> 
> PS. It's probably just me, but I thought it pretty funny that the
> spellcheck in GMail gave me the suggestion of "poop" for the word
> "popup". I think most internet users would concur. :-)
> 
> 
> 
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