Re: woody-to-sarge test upgrade
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:13:23PM +0300, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote:
> El Sábado 30 Abril 2005 01:42, ballombe@debian.org escribió:
> >
> > Ah yes, aptitude dist-upgrade works much better and is non-interactive.
> > That fix the problem with the needless removal of apache, etc.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Even Bill (who is DD) did this mistake, despite this question has appeared
> before in the list.
> This makes me think that a lot of people will have problems updating from
> Sarge, because they will not read the documentation.
>
> Could we make this aptitude recommendation more visible in any way? This might
> help.
Yes... I did not know "aptitude dist-upgrade" was different from "apt
dist-upgrade". The woody aptitude manpage does not mention any command
line directive, and the sid manpage does not document the dist-upgrade
target, this is bug #268697.
For woody the recommend way was to use dselect, but this is an
interactive command so I could not use it in an automated test
framework.
FWIW, upgrading with dselect works, but installs all the recommends (as
expected).
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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