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Re: aptitude upgrade vs. apt-get upgrade



Hi everyone.

Why is that?

Where can we find source info about this recomendation?

Joseph.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Riku Valli <riku.valli@vallit.fi>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:12:19 
To: <debian-security@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: aptitude upgrade vs. apt-get upgrade

On 03/31/2011 04:23 PM, Benedikt Hallinger wrote:
> Hi,
> i noticed that too and switched back to apt-get for that reason.
Hi

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.

Regards, Riku

> 
> 
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:49:19 +0200, Thomas Hungenberg
> <th+lists-debian@demonium.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> since upgrading from lenny to squeeze, I've noticed several times that
>> aptitude
>> does not install all available security updates whereas apt-get does.
>>
>> Currently, this looks like:
>>
>> # 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?
>>
>>    - Thomas
> 
> 


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