time setting in debian

[Collins Richey]

On 2/24/06, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:

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> upgrade will upgrade packages that need no
> interaction and whose upgrade is benign.  This can be done without
> fear automagically.
>
> dist-upgrade upgrades _all_ packages that can be upgraded, including
> those that require a response to questions and/or might cause problems
> (like a glibc upgrade that requires you to stop and restart services,
> etc.).  Kernel upgrades are usually dist-upgrade packages.
>

Ah, light bulb goes on. Thanks for clearing that up, David. So, the
question is how would you know/learn/discover that you have packages
waiting to be dist-upgraded, or can you even discover that?

I'm still such a babe in the woods when in comes to debian.

>
> aptitude is the worst package manager I've ever seen and I still can't
> figure it out.  Personally, I use dselect (but then, I've used it for
> so many years it's second nature) or use dpkg directly.
>

Also interesting to know. apt-get has served me well thus far. My only
real gripe is that it isn't a complete tool like rpm (not that I am an
rpm fan!). You have to dig around and google to learn how to display
available and installed packages, for example.


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Collins Richey
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