On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 04:33:22PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Mark J. Small wrote:
> > Everything installed nicely from there...
> >
> > Any ideas on what's going on? Why wasn't the debian-files package
> > selected with apt-get upgrade when it was with dselect?
>
> That's a feature of apt.
>
> You've used apt-get update. apt-get update only installs newer version
> of the package installed. If the dependencies change and some
> dependencies are not installed on your system net (in this case
> openoffice.org-debian-files) apt-get upgrade does not upgrade them.
The above statement is wrong. When apt-get is asked to upgrade a
package, and the new version of the package has an additional (new)
dependency, apt-get asks the user whether to install the additional
packages.
Running 'apt-get -u upgrade' displays more detailed information.
> In such cases, use apt-get dist-upgrade. dselect regognizes deps
> anyway ans installs them.
Apt-get dist-upgrade indeed does it by itself. Dselect, however, is of
course informed about the dependencies, but it uses apt-get to install
the selected packages. Though, I haven't used dselect for ages.
> Regards,
>
> Rene
>
> --
> .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer
You might be a Debian GNU/Linux Developer, but I upgrade my sid
installation almost daily, and I know what 'apt-get -u upgrade' does,
and what it asks :)
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