On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:37:34AM -0400, Graeme Tank wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:59:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Have you tried aptitude? It's like dselect but with a bit more brain. > > I recall using aptitude briefly as a Debian novice on stable, but found > apt-cache (search|show) and apt-get install easier for upgrades within > stable. I can easily imagine others preferring aptitude. > > Later (just recently), I wanted to make the move to testing and found > Colin Watson's May 9 post: > > I much prefer upgrading with dselect. I've spent too much time fixing > very subtle problems with 'apt-get dist-upgrade' that really > shouldn't have gone wrong (debconf and xbase-clients upgrade problems > come to mind) that I don't trust it. > > I repeat it here, because the upgrade from stable to testing with > dselect went smoothly ... kudos to those responsible. > > After the move to a testing/unstable system, I found dselect easy to use > to hold and unhold packages. In this way aptitude would work well, too. > Thanks Paul, I'll check it out. (However, because aptitude is a > front-end for apt, perhaps it's best to use dselect for dist-upgrades as > Colin recommends.)
I'd expect aptitude to do a better job than apt-get, because I believe that offering the user a bit more control in the upgrade process than just dist-upgrade's take-it-or-leave-it approach is a good thing. However, I've not tried it so I can't make any recommendations there. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
