[Gllug] Back-out plans on Debian/Redhat?

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 07 Mar, John Winters wrote:
> 
> Khusro Jaleel wrote:
> > I am NOT going from Etch to Lenny, just to be clear.
> > 
> > I thought even within Etch for example, when applying the updates, you
> > should do a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or 'aptitude dist-upgrade'? Not
> > just an 'apt-get upgrade'? Maybe I'm wrong about that?
> 
> As Bruce says, you wouldn't normally expect a "dist-upgrade" to be
> necessary if you're just tracking a stable Debian distribution.
> 
> If you do an "apt-get upgrade" on the system now, does it show any
> packages as being held back?
> 
> Regards,
> John

   The recommended system for maintaining Debian is Aptitude, because it is
better able to sort dependencies, and that should be run frequently to track
security updates, not left until the entire distribution is due for an
upgrade.

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