[TriLUG] Re: openssl bug

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Wed Sep 18 11:49:45 EDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 11:42, James Manning wrote:
> oh - weird.
> 
> I always thought that upgrade kept the same version of the
> distribution (potato, woody, sid, whatever) and just upgraded packages
> that have been updated in that dist since last upgrade, but
> dist-upgrade would actually go across distro release boundaries and
> upgrade from, say, woody to sid if sid was now "stable" (optionally,
> if you decided to go from stable to unstable or testing or whatever).
> 
> I should RTFM some more ... well, that and play around with Debian
> more :)
> 

Actually, I think an upgrade like that changes when you change
what repository you're pointing at.  Of course, someone that
actually runs debian could probably explain it better. :-)

Tanner
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