Apt-get upgrade after Warty

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Sun Oct 24 01:22:04 UTC 2004


On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 04:07:20PM +0100, Mark C wrote:
> Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> > Up-2-Date & Upgrade (apt-get upgrade & apt-get dist-upgrade)
> > Actualize / Modernize & Upgrade
> 
> not sure if redhat have got any copyright or whatever, but 'up2date' 
> feels a lot better, beats trying to remember where the spaces and case 
> statements are (unless you use tab completion).

However, using a name that's also the name of another program that
performs a similar but subtly different function is usually a recipe for
confusion.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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