On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 5:36 PM Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > > Dear list, > > over the many years we got different tools for upgrading debian in the > commandline. These tools behave differently and also we get different results, > when eecuting. > > First, we have the oldest, whcih is apt-get. > apt-get update, apt-get upgrade or apt-get full-upgrade does a good job. > > However, we also have aptitude, but > aptitude update, aptitude upgrade and aptitude full-upgrade are doing also a > good job, but not the same as apt-get does. Also it looks, aptitude update > loads its own list and is not using the list from apt-get (otherwise it could > not explain, why aptitude and apt-get every time reloads the new list, when > one of the other was eecuted before). Also the dependencies in both tools are > handled different. > > And at last, we have apt, which (as far as I now), soemtimes is calling apt- > get, and sometimes is calling aptitude. > > This is somehow rather irritating! > > So, my question is: Which one is recommended, when updating and upgrading is > used in a script, so that it causes as little as possible pain? > > It means: When the script is not eecuted daily, but let us say, every two > weeks, and we have lots of packages. > > At the moment I am using aptitude, this works great in short periods, but > after al longer time, it crashes, because some dependencies could not resolve. > > Independent of my personal use: Which one is recommended?
<https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/uptodate.en.html>. Jeff
