[wplug] Upgrades and updates - was: SLES 9.0 questions

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:23:40AM +0800, cdemarco at fastmail.fm wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:01:32PM -0400, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> 
> > Are the Gentoo, Debian  and BSD  folks  different?  Do they  issue a
> > command and --POOF-- all their software is upgraded?   Or, do we all
> > say at some point "It's time to move to the next/latest version"?
> 
> Gentoo users "emerge -u   world"  which recompiles everything  on  the
> system  to the latest-stable version.   
> 
> BSD  folks "make world" which updates  everything to the latest-stable
> CVS versions.
> 
> I seem to recall Debian having something similar, but I can't remember
> anymore how it worked.

Yes:  "apt-get dist-upgrade"

If you run the testing or unstable version, there's typically not a
lot of changes involved.  If you stick to stable, then the upcoming
woody-to-sarge transition will be pretty major.  But you typically
never have to go through the installation process again.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u