[Cialug] Unborking Feisty Fawn

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 13:21 -0500, Brandon Griffis wrote:
> dist-upgrade basically means upgrading your system to the latest
> downloadable release.  Basically when you do a regular upgrade you
> stay on the same version of the distribution but get security patches
> and some minor version updates to programs.  Nothing that requires
> major dependency changes.  When you dist-upgrade it uninstalls any old
> applications and their dependencies and installs the new version.
> It's sort of a "smart upgrade" basically converting your system to
> what it would be like if you installed the newest version of the
> distro from DVD, while attempting to keep your config files working.  

Keep in mind that for Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) dist-upgrade is no longer the
suggested way to do upgrades. Now you're supposed to use upgrade-manager.

This distro team told me to say that anytime I get the opportunity. :-)
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Matthew Nuzum
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