Thread: package upstart breaks apt-get dist-upgrade
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2011-04-04 , 12:09
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
On the other hand, I occassionally run apt-get upgrade and it seems to work ok.

And FWIW after reading this thread I tried running apt-get install upstart and got a message saying I already had the latest version installed.
upgrade is fine as that holds back any packages which might cause issues. dist-upgrade will ignore those issues and trust that the repository is set up in such a way that the issues will go away when all the updating is completed. Its sole purpose is to do upgrades between major releases of the distribution, where various packages are replaced, renamed, etc. and there's no way to upgrade without going through stages where the system is not 100% consistent.
 

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