2011/3/13 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com>: > On Sb, 12 mar 11, 19:07:50, darkestkhan wrote: >> >> I'm running sid / experimental so dist-upgrade in my case is almost >> like throwing away half of the system; And I'm using aptitude >> safe-upgrade which is good solution. Also frequent ( I'm doing upgrade >> at least 2 times a day ) upgrades are really sorting out most of >> inter-release changes that may ( or may not ) happen in Sid. > > That's not my experience, left undone some full-upgrades just tend to > accumulate more packages to be removed. Especially library packages are > "removed". Example: > > > Package foo version 1.2 depends on a library with package name > libbar1.2. Now foo version 1.3 is uploaded, which depends on a library > with name libbar1.3, but for some reason libbar1.3 conflicts with > libbar1.2. apt will not be able to upgrade foo unless you allow it to > remove libbar1.2, which is normal and what you would want. >
In which case I'm manually intervening, though aptitude is solving this problem in most cases for me really gracefully. Running apt-get dist-upgrade would cause removal of ~2GB ( latex, fonts, and few other ) of packages just to get slightly newer library, which breaks those packages. > > Unfortunately there are also cases when a dist/full-upgrade will do the > wrong thing. Distinguishing between the two cases needs experience (but > aptitude's interactive resolver is of great help). > >> Also >> packages in Sid or experimental can have unsatisfied dependencies. > > You might want to add testing to your sources.list, because it can > happen that a package is removed from unstable to unblock a complex > transition to testing. Maybe, but in this case I would: a) install/upgrade it before it disappear from sid b) even if package disappeared it is still installed on my system c) quite often they are staying in experimental ( or at least that is my experience ) And most dangerous transitions are occurring in experimental darkestkhan ------------------------------------------ jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTimLmOOS-1YvSSi-tQNdfQq8++-i8R=ju+xo6...@mail.gmail.com
