apt-get dist-upgrade wants to wipe out everythin!
OK, "everything" is a slight exageration; but only a slight one.
For a while I was going along happily doing 'apt-get update; apt-get
dist-upgrade' every couple of days.
Then I added a couple of sites that publish special packages.
The next thing, 'dist-upgrade' prepares for:
"2 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 76 downgraded, 5626 to remove and 0 not
upgraded."
I'm glad apt at least says it is about to do something really stupid and
am I positive that's what I want?
Aptitude, however, is not confused by whatever is strange in the
database. I've been using that, but it's marginally slower when I only
want to get my current manifest up to date. Aptitude, has another
problem that may be related. Several packages installed in that past
week get re-installed every time I run it. They always show up as
upgrades even tho' the revision level hasn't changed.
Can anyone suggest how to 'correct' the picture of my status that
apt-get works from?
TIA,
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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