Re: aptitude upgrade vs. apt-get upgrade
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:28:21 +0100 Hector Oron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/3/31 Riku Valli <riku.valli@vallit.fi>:
>
> > apt-get is now preferred method over aptitude at Squeeze. However at
> > Lenny aptitude is preferred over apt-get.
> >
> > You should use apt-get with Squeeze and aptitude with Lenny.
>
> It is recommended on the release-notes for the upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
> Aptitude should just work fine on squeeze.
>
> >>> # aptitude -s upgrade
> >>> The following packages will be upgraded:
> >>> bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-60 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60
> >>> libisccfg62 liblwres60
> >>> 8 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> >>>
> >>> # apt-get -s upgrade
> >>> Reading package lists... Done
> >>> Building dependency tree
> >>> Reading state information... Done
> >>> The following packages will be upgraded:
> >>> bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-60 libdns69 libisc62 libisccc60
> >>> libisccfg62 liblwres60
> >>> tex-common
> >>> 9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> >>>
> >>> What's the reason for this?
>
> Can you check which it is the status of tex-common, is it held by any
> reason? aptitude frontend it is very good to find out such things.
>
> In anycase, I believe this conversation belongs to debian-user@l.d.o
> and not debian-security@l.d.o
If there it turns out there is actually a problem in aptitude, then
keeping debian-security in the loop is a good thing, so don't worry
about changing mailing list context. This is a fine place for
discussion.
Best wishes,
Mike
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