Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> 	3) I want to upgrade my machine to the latest woody packages.
> 		(i.e., the equivalent of "apt-get update"; "apt-get -u
> 		upgrade"; apt-get -u dist-upgrade".  (Hopefully with
> 		support for recommended packages, and hopefully with
> 		support with displaying in advance what packages will
> 		be upgraded and what has been changed --- i.e.,
> 		apt-listchanges --- all automatically).
> 
> The problem with dselect, aptitude, or even the whizzy Gtk-based Storm
> package manager don't make it easy to do this.

Dselect makes it quite easy to do this. After all, that is exactly what
it was designed to do.

> (i.e., I just want to
> install one package; why should I have to wade through thousands and
> thousands of packages to find it?)

Dselect supports vi/less style searching on package name, FWIW.

> Users don't care about layering violation; they just want to an easy
> to user interface.  Users shouldn't have to twist their thinking to
> the details of the implementation, after all.
> 
> 1)  So "apt search" will do the equivalent of "apt-cache search".
> 
> 2)  "apt install" will do the equivalent of "apt-get install"
> 
> 3)  "apt upgrade" will do the equivalent of "apt-get upgrade"
> 
> 4)  "apt reconfig" will do the equivalent of "dpkg-reconfigure"

Someone has written a wrapper to do this. They even called it apt. I
don't think it's been packaged.

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