Re: upgrading with dselect
Hans <hansfong@zonnet.nl> wrote:
>I am also experimenting with upgrading potato to testing now that I have
>some more bandwith available. I screwed up big time by doing apt-get update
>&& apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. I
>tried to remedy by using dselect, but that only caused more conflicts and
>essential package removal like bsdutils.
>
>I think you shouldn't mix apt-get with dselect, but I'd like to hear some
>comments on this. Or maybe use deselect to make choices and use upt-get
>dselect-upgrade, but I haven't tried if this works.
It does. I mix apt and dselect all the time, as it happens; dselect for
regular upgrades and apt for incidental installs (or sometimes dselect
for that too, depending on how I feel).
dselect works much better if you treat it as the primary interface to
package management. Once you get it into a consistent state, it's easy;
getting it into a consistent state from a clean install is also not
difficult, in my experience. However, it seems that it's quite difficult
to get it consistent after the system has been primarily managed using
apt for a while. To me, this suggests that apt is doing something
eccentric, but it's hard to be sure.
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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