On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:53:12 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>I guess many new users are used to synaptic or aptitude. Personaly I
>think we can recommend to use apt-get, but should test upgrades with
>aptitude and synaptic too and solve/describe possible issues with them.
I am trying to collect information for documenting the etch->lenny upgrade using
aptitude and to document the possible issues.
I have run several upgrades from etch to lenny with aptitude and apt-get. I have
noted the following things when doing it the simple way i.e. :
aptitude/apt-get update
(aptitude/apt-get upgrade)
aptitude/apt-get dist-upgrade
I wonder if it is worth filling this report against upgrade-reports too ?
Test system: Xen image - i386 - Kernel 2.6.18-6-xen-686
With aptitude
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Problems
- (1) several xserver-xorg-video* are removed from the system leaving it
without graphical interface when the system is concerned with the drivers
that are removed.
- (2) aptitude complains about unmet dependency for libvte4 and leave
libvte-common not upgraded for not breaking the dependency required for
libvte4. Running a second "aptitude dist-upgrade" will remove libvte4 and
then upgrade libvte-common. This behavior is not encountered when
dist-upgrading with apt-get ( Bug#503419 ).
- (3) on one system (P4 - Intel D845HV - 384MB) gnome-desktop-environment
was also removed (I will try this week to reproduce the problem and find
how to deal with it) ( Bug#503296 )
The following procedure resolved the problems (1) and (2) above :
(1) aptitude update
(2) aptitude install apt aptitude dpkg
(3) aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-all
(4) aptitude dist-upgrade
(5) aptitude dist-upgrade
Remarks : - (5) was necessary for removing libvte4 and upgrading
libvte-common
- (4) and (5) can be replaced with : aptitude dist-upgrade libvte4-
With apt-get
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Problems
- (1) several xserver-xorg-video* are removed from the system leaving it
without graphical interface when the system is concerned with the drivers
that are removed.
The following procedure resolved the problem (1) above :
(1) aptitude update
(2) aptitude install apt aptitude dpkg
(3) aptitude install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-all
(4) aptitude dist-upgrade
Remarks : - in (3) trying to install xserver-xorg-video-all alone was not
possible because of an unmet dependency for
xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd that needed xserver-xorg-core
upgraded.
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