Dist Upgrade

[NoOp]

On 11/02/2009 11:37 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Emil Payne wrote:
>>
>>> I've been waiting but I still see no upgrade.  Synaptic doesn't show
>>> anything and neither does update-manager -d. I've got my preferences set
>>> to show normal upgrades.
>>>
>>
>> I do know you can't use dist-upgrade on Ubuntu.  It will break a ton of
>> stuff.
> 
> I haven't heard of this before. Anyone want to corroborate? Maybe I was 
> lucky but I used it recently to upgrade some packages that were held 
> back.
> 
> 

It's certainly available:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man8/apt-get.8.html
but the "Official" server docs have this to say:
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/installing-upgrading.html
<quote>
Debian based systems can also be upgraded by using apt-get dist-upgrade.
However, using do-release-upgrade is recommended because it has the
ability to handle system configuration changes sometimes needed between
releases.
</quote>