Status of Dapper?

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Sun Apr 9 19:17:42 UTC 2006


On zo, 2006-04-09 at 20:08 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> What does dist-upgrader do that's not done by 'apt-get dist-upgrade'?
> My experience upgrading from one version of Ubuntu to the next has not
> been "easy". It would require me to take the computer from the
> customer and bring it back the next day or the day after.

I tend to upgrade during development and that breaks, so you may need to
perform some dpkg magic. Also, several things aren't representable as
package relations (ike xscreensaver versus gnome-screensaver). The
dist-upgrader will (try to) take care of that.
-- 
Dennis K.
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