pgrade' is safer.
> It may be that dist-upgrade smartly resolves conflicts by removing
> currently installed packages, but the man page doesn't explicitly indicate
> that.
As you point out, the apt-get and aptitude man pages do not say this.
However, it's easily verifie
On Sunday 03 July 2005 17:09, R. Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> That may be true for apt-get (the apt-get man page entries for upgrade
> and dist-upgrade mention nothing about installation state), but it
> doesn't seem to be true for aptitude [...]
It is true.
Excuse me? That's a direct cut-and-paste from the apt-get man page.
It is, but it only half-answers the question. The original discussion
involved the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade. The quote I cited
implied that upgrade is safer than dist-upgrade because upgrade doesn't
re
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:14:19PM -0400, R. Clayton wrote:
> 'apt-get upgrade' is restricted (and therefore safer) in that:
>
> under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed,
>
> Neither the apt-get nor the aptitude man page make that distinction (which is
> not to say i
tly resolves conflicts by removing currently installed
packages, but the man page doesn't explicitly indicate that.
The aptitude man page doesn't, except for the synopsis, mention dist-upgrade at
all.
As an aside, the apt-get and aptitude man pages describe different behaviors
for upgrade
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