Does anybody use apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to Hardy?

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Sun Apr 27 01:14:11 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Oliver Grawert wrote:
>
>> use update-manager-core for commandline upgrades, dont use apt-get if
>> you cant handle the fallout you get with it (u-m has builtin handling
>> for a ton of special cases to guarantee a smooth upgrade in any case.
>
> Guarantee?  That's a huge improvement over Gutsy...
>
> I tried update-manager for the first time with gutsy, and it broke, so I
> went back to aptitude.

There's no guarantee that update-manager works without glitches, but
chances are better than without it.

   Florian
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