Re: apt-get

[J Horacio MG <homega@ciberia.es>]

El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 04:44:56 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo:
> 
> On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> 
> > And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to
> > potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for
> > apt-get and sources.list, but I'd like to get some help from someone who
> > has already experienced it ... BTW, should there be an apt command and
> > an apt manpage?  I just have apt-get and apt-cache).
> 
> To the later question: the most recent apt package under potato contains
> the following binaries manpages:
> 
> /usr/bin/apt-cache
> /usr/bin/apt-cdrom
> /usr/bin/apt-config
> /usr/bin/apt-get
> /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cdrom.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/apt-config.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/apt.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cache.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man5/apt.conf.5.gz
> /usr/share/man/man5/sources.list.5.gz

Well, that may be only in potato since I only have binaries and manpages
for both apt-get and apt-cache (+ source.list manpage)

> To the first part of the question:
> 
> Change stable to unstable or potato in the /etc/apt/sources.list, which
> makes apt-get aware of the newer packages...

Right, I guess `potato' makes more sense as `unstable' will be one of
these days "very unstable" (sid?).

> > Dependencies, pre-dependencies, and interdependencies are just a bit too
> > hard to deal with for a major upgrade, so I'd like to give apt a try, at
> > least for a partial upgrade (a total upgrade is just too expensive
> > except for USers).  I attach a file with the packages I want to upgrade
> > (based on my previous attempt);  could anyone tell me how to do this
> > with apt or apt-get?
> 
> The following should work:
> 
> 	apt-get update
> 	apt-get install package1 package2 package3 ...
> 
> apt-get should only upgrade the packages needed to install package1,
> package2 and so on and keep the other back. 

Does the order matter?  In the list of packages I have, many are there
because others depend on it.  I mean, I could be listing one program as
package1 (which may depend on glibc2.1), and then somewhere along the
line list glibc2.1 as well... I hope it won't reinstall or something
(well, since dpkg doesn't install unless it's an upgrade...)

I hope this time will work.  Thanks Martin!

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