Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-02 Thread Michael M.
Marty wrote: PS since you are upgrading to testing you should understand that you are volunteering to break your system often and repeatedly in the name of science. Thanks for your display of spirit and fortitude. Although I eventually tired of the exercise I'm glad others had stepped up to

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread Marty
Wu-Kung Sun wrote: apt-get turns out to be mostly the same. I started using aptitude since I thought it was supposed to replace apt-get when sarge went stable. Now both apt-get and aptitude want to remove aptitude. It's a hint I think. Yes, I think maybe it's a hint. Maybe you should take i

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
apt-get turns out to be mostly the same. I started using aptitude since I thought it was supposed to replace apt-get when sarge went stable. Now both apt-get and aptitude want to remove aptitude. It's a hint I think. Thanks everyone for the advice. # apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lis

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:45:25PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > I want to start tracking testing instead of stable. Attached (since > it's long) is the output of "aptitude -s dist-upgrade." Why are so > many things being removed? Why are so many things being held back > when updated versions are

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 04:01:32PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > >I want to start tracking testing instead of stable. > > [...] > Perhaps a > better approach would be: apt-get upgrade (change your sources to > testi

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Wu-Kung Sun wrote: I want to start tracking testing instead of stable. Attached (since it's long) is the output of "aptitude -s dist-upgrade." Why are so many things being removed? Why are so many things being held back when updated versions are clearly shown? (I've never manually set anythin