[lug] Redhat Enterprise Linux

[John Hernandez]

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:41, The Matt wrote:
> This is also why I never run dist-upgrade.  My system is a pretty mixed
> and a dist-upgrade would break it.  But, if you never use the FreshRPMs
> or other non-standard packages, you could use dist-upgrade as up2date.

I also have RPMs from various repositories (KDE3, Freshrpms, RH updates), and 
I run dist-upgrade periodically with no ill effects.  The most common reason 
that I've encountered for packages to be "held back" by 'apt-get upgrade' 
(and thus require a dist-upgrade) is that an update to some installed 
software has an additional dependency that the old version did not have.

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