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[Thomas M. Albright]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Benjamin Scott wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, at 9:41am, talbright at albrightent.com wrote:
> > I run apt-get dist-upgrade on it every night, so I'm guessing apm got
> > changed.
> > 
>   I admit I'm confused as to how you're running "apt-get dist-upgrade" on a
> Red Hat 6.2 system.  I know APT has been ported to RPM, but you're obviously
> not upgrading the distribution or you'd have left RHL 6.2 in the dust a
> loooong time ago... :-)  Can you clue me in here?  I'm interested.
> 
It works, so why upgrade and risk breaking it? The dist-upgrade option 
does more than upgrade the ditribution to the next level; it also makes 
sure all dependemcies are settled. It will install any extra packages 
and remove any extraneuos ones. Since freshrpms and dag both have 6.2 
repositories, I run apt nightly to make sure my system stays as up to 
date as possible.

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