On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:03:38PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> Nonsense. *apt* will only install what it has to in order to upgrade you,
> while dselect can and does gift you with a whole new set of software you may
> not want, since it obeys things like 'Recommends:' that apt has no reason to
> p
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:25:26PM +0930, Disembodied Head wrote:
>
> Jeez mate, if you love dselect so much why don't you marry it? =)
Why do so many people act like it's their mother in law, that is the
interesting question.
Dselect seems to catch a lot of flak from certain people. Usually,
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:08:53AM -0400, Paul Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:32:55 +0200, Joost wrote:
> >
> > But really, upgrading your dist should be done with dselect.
> >
>
> Why?
Because you should verify what changed in terms of split or renamed
packages and changed dependencies.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:32:55AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:03:49PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote:
> > I attempted to "apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade", from potato to
> > woody,
> > but a few of the larger packages timed out. Almost all of them however
> > made
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:32:55 +0200, Joost wrote:
>
> But really, upgrading your dist should be done with dselect.
>
Why?
--ptw
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From: Joost Kooij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:33 PM
To: Phil Reardon
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:Re: broken dist-upgrade
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:03:49PM -0600, Phil Reardon
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:03:49PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote:
> I attempted to "apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade", from potato to woody,
> but a few of the larger packages timed out. Almost all of them however made
> it to /var/cache/apt. What is the best thing to do next?
Redo "apt-get di
Hi,
it's a problem :)
the solution is:
apt-get install perl5.6
-Jon
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