It seems to work for me to just say "apt-get install x" and then let it figure out that it's really doing an upgrade. Or how about using aptitude or dselect? You can also mark the ones you don't want to upgrade as "held" or use pinning to keep them at a certain version, then use apt-get to upgrade the rest. -Steve On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:27:32PM -0500, Scot Jenkins wrote: > A quick question for all the Debian gurus: > > I have an older woody system that needs to be updated to sarge but > it's running a lot of services, ie, potential to break lots of stuff. > > "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" will update all packages. I know > I can download individual pkgs and upgrade them via "dpkg -i > <pkgname>" but I'd prefer to use apt to handle any dependencies. > > Is there a way to selectively apply updates via apt? > > What I want is something like this: > > apt-get update pkg_a > > which would only upgrade pkg_a and it's dependencies. > I didn't find anything in the apt man page that indicates apt supports > this type of action. > > ideas? > > Thanks, > scot > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list