Re: aptitude dist-upgrade wants to install 695 new packages

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Lale
Wackojacko wrote: [ ... ] Like John I use Kpackage, but when i have looked at aptitude it is originally setup to automatically install *recomended* packages by default. You can switch this off in the UI, so i imageine it can be configured via the CLI as well. [ ... ] |-R|, |--without-r

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade wants to install 695 new packages

2006-05-18 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 21:27, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Wednesday 17 May 2006 14:59, rs wrote: > > [...] > > In other words, upgrade will hold back any package whose new version has > new dependencies or requires the removal of any package. Dist-upgrade > will install any new dependencies and remo

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade wants to install 695 new packages

2006-05-18 Thread Wackojacko
John O'Hagan wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 14:59, rs wrote: [...] I'd like to upgrade from stable (sarge) to testing. Tried "aptitude upgrade" and it came back with 109 packages kept back. [...] Obviously, I want kept back packages to be upgraded too (BTW, is there a way to find out why, sp

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade wants to install 695 new packages

2006-05-17 Thread John O'Hagan
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 14:59, rs wrote: [...] > I'd like to upgrade from stable (sarge) to testing. Tried "aptitude > upgrade" and it came back with 109 packages kept back. [...] > Obviously, I want kept back packages to be upgraded too (BTW, is there a > way to find out why, specifically, those