Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:18:59AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> >
> > What I'd *like* to be able to do is to issue a command which displays
> > all of the packages for which new packages are eligible. Today,
> > "apt-get -u upgrade" does a nice job of that, modulo not dealing with
> > recommended packages. I don't want to wade through pages and pages
> > of packages to find out what's going to be installed.
>
> cat >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
> APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";
Show-Upgraded merely avoids my needing to specify the -u option to
apt-get (which by now is a reflex).
What I was asking for was a way for apt-get to display a list of
packages which are recommended and/or suggested by the upgraded
packages, and then asking the user a yes/no question if he/she would
like to install all of the suggested packages. As far as I know,
there's no way to do that apt; the only way is to use the horror which
is dselect.
- Ted
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