Maxim Kovgan wrote:

> the problem of dist-upgrade, which is not a regular upgrade.
> If you want to jump a release, it is a _complicated_ thing - the apt-get
> system must meet future dependencies, and stay operable...
> anyway, if you do apt-get dist-upgrade you should be serious and
> confident enough to be able to run 
> 'apt-get -f install'


OK, I am not familiar with apt, however I had already upgraded to SL 4.2 via yum (and 
rebooted) previously. Thus it is an already upgraded system.

I hadn't encountered this type of behaviour when I upgraded to SL 4.1 from 4.0 (via yum 
again), and followed the upgrade procedure of apt.