Upgrade paths

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at canonical.com
Fri Sep 17 03:54:30 UTC 2004


<quote who="Joshua King">

> I have been looking through the documentation and can't find an answer to
> this question. When a new release is issued, will upgrade via apt be an
> option? Or will it require downloading and installing the new version?
> 
> For me at least, release upgrades using dist-upgrade would be preferable.

You will definitely be able to upgrade between stable releases with the
usual dist-upgrade functionality from apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc. This
will also work day-to-day on our development branch (but things may break a
little bit along the way, as expected).

:-)

- Jeff

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