On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:26:46 -0700 Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> > On a Sid Unstable system there are a lot of transitions. Running > dist-upgrade only mostly works but sometimes the transitions and other > noise confuse APT and it wants to take a different path than we want > it to take. Such as to remove everything. Running upgrade first > upgrades everything that can be upgraded without removing anything or > adding anything. Then the subsequent dist-upgrade has a simpler > solution to find and will usually do the right thing. > I would add here that a Sid system which is only occasionally upgraded can present aptitude with a serious problem, which can hang it for hours (I lost patience, but it might have succeeded in the end) so I'd recommend apt-get in this situation. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150307094818.0c4f6...@jresid.jretrading.com
