Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 06 apr 11, 15:58:05, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > 'apt-get upgrade' is synonymous with 'aptitude full-upgrade'. No, it's not. In fact, 'aptitude safe-upgrade' will install new packages, while 'apt-get upgrade' will not ;) > Either way, not to be a dick and suggest you RTFM, but you really

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 07 April 2011 16:38:42 David Jardine wrote: > Nobody's challenged this yet, so perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that > aptitude's safe-upgrade and full-upgrade are equivalent to apt-get's > upgrade and dist-upgrade respectively.  But I still think so. :) And they say that they are much

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-07 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:44:30PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > I know very little about apt-get, but according to Aaron, who > clearly does know about it, apt-get upgrade is equivalent to aptitude > full-upgrade. Nobody's challenged this yet, so perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that aptitude's s

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 23:44:30 +0100 Lisi wrote: > You just need to remember that, in effect, if you run aptitude > safe-upgrade you are telling aptitude that it mustn't remove > anything. This restriction may mean that it can't upgrade. Thanks for that information Lisi. Aptitude does remove some

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 05 April 2011 23:35:08 Charlie wrote: > Trying to satisfy a curiosity. > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but > one application file. > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for > several days and doesn't get upgraded when I do

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:58:05 -0600 Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:35:08AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all > > but one application file. > > > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for > > sever

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:35:08AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but > one application file. > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for > several days and doesn't get upgraded when I do aptitude > "safe-upgrade"

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:50:43 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:35:08 +1000, Charlie wrote: > > > Trying to satisfy a curiosity. > > > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all > > but one application file. > > > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it sho

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:35:08 +1000, Charlie wrote: > Trying to satisfy a curiosity. > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but > one application file. > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for several > days and doesn't get upgraded when