Oliver Jones wrote:
* aptitude dist-uprade does different things to aptitude upgrade. I always use dist-upgrade and have no problems, I've had packages kept back when just using upgrade. Other people suggest other things.
The golden rule to remember is that upgrade will not upgrade a package that would install another package, where dist-upgrade will. For example, between two distributions, you might have a change in dependencies: woody: php4-foo depends libfoo-1 sarge: php4-foo depends libfoo-2, libbar-1 If you just performed an 'upgrade', php4-foo would be held back. (Contrived example). In saying that, I have only ever used aptitude to upgrade woody to sarge and don't think you need to use it day to day after an upgrade (the version of apt-get in woody doesn't handle some of the stuff aptitude does, but I think the version of apt-get in Sarge is fine).
Right. I've already played with some of those differences. The apache config is quite nice. Though apache2ctl seems not to do anything (except configtest). Is there anything like Redhat's "service" script or do I have to just use /etc/init.d/<service> <command>?
http://www.wlug.org.nz/invoke-rc.d(8) But everyone just uses /e<tab>/i<tab>/ ;) Craig