-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/07 20:30, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:56:21 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [snip] > >> But at the same time, "#apt-get upgrade" worked perfectly. > > I am not so sure it worked perfectly. It allowed you machine to > stay in an inconsistent state, while aptitude tried to fix it. Do this > long enough, then th recovery becomes painful. > [snip] > >> Like I said, apt-get never wanted to remove packages. Sometimes it >> would hold back *lots* of packages, but never remove them. > > aptitude offers tonnes of solutions to cycle through, and you > can often unjam things by aptitude instal'ing one or few packages.
All I can say is that I've been running Sid since about a year afte Potato went Stable, and my system has never gotten into an inconsistent state, and thus has never been painful to recover from. Maybe you are channeling Mandrake 8.0. Now *that* was painful (and impossible) to upgrade!!!! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG9IbFS9HxQb37XmcRAvqLAKClAjlIDsIrvL2jualae4NvMPZQXgCeJz8s m1d58PyqRo5Z5NiHo17/DN8= =lym4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
