On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 05:02:49AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
> Say, often a developer upgrades a group of related packages, but they
> don't hit the mirrors at the same time. This causes apt-get
> dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade to remove the older parts instead of
> holding back
TF> aptitude safe-upgrade
TF> aptitude dist-upgrade
OK works good and I am sold.
Maybe I can even use aptitude to solve my other posting today
"how to keep the latest linux-doc package installed?"
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:07:46AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I used to use aptitude, and even dselect, but I found one needed to
> use their full screen modes to use them to their full extent, which
> was too exciting for me, so retreated to the simpler apt-get
> dselect-upgrade to stay on
AP> apt-get dist-upgrade is not meant to be run on a daily basis on sid, but
AP> only as needed and for when you actually look at the output to make sure
AP> it doesn't remove something you actually want. Second of all, "real men"
AP> use aptitude, which handles these kinds of dependencies in a sma
I.e., here we see apt gets it right for php5, but not for gimp:
# apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade
Investigating php5
Package php5 has broken dep on libapache2-mod-php5
Package php5 has broken dep on libapache2-mod-php5filter
Package php5 has broken dep on php5-cgi
Or group
Say, often a developer upgrades a group of related packages, but they
don't hit the mirrors at the same time. This causes apt-get
dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade to remove the older parts instead of
holding back for the newer parts. One must use apt-get upgrade for the
many days the condition pers
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