[TriLUG] No More Consumer Red Hat?

[Ben Pitzer]

Debian upgrade is like this:

1.  Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change all references from 'stable' to
'unstable'.
2.  Run apt-get update
3.  Run apt-get dist-upgrade
4.  You're done.  Have a beer.

Only reboot if you want to install a new kernel, because you don't
necessarily need one, and apt-get doesn't get one for you.  You run Debian,
you're smart enough to know what the kernel is, and probably how to compile
it, but if you don't then at the very least, you should know if you need to
install a new kernel package.  So if you want one, apt-get it yourself,
because Debian isn't going to make the assumption that you need one.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer

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 deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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> Behalf Of Sinner from the Prairy
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 2:24 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] No More Consumer Red Hat?
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> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:53 pm, Mike Mueller wrote:
> > The short time I spent on Mandrake was extremely positive until I
> > got to updating and upgrading which is where Debian leads the pack.  I
> > gather from comments on this list that the update/upgrade process is
> > managable now. (Is it fee based?)
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> Mmmm, I upgrade packages with:
> urpmi.update -a --wget
> urpmi --wget --auto-select --media updates --auto
>
> I recently updated from 9.1 to 9.2  with:
>
> 1. deleting 'old version' package sources
> 2. adding 'new version' package sources
> 3. upgrading 'urpmi' first (urpmi urpmi)
> 4. urpmi --wget --auto-select --auto
> 5. urpmi kernel (if needed)
> 6. reboot (if 5. was needed)
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
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