Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Justin Hahn wrote:
> 
> > >Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect.
> >
> > Brian,
> > Why this assertion? I thought dselect was on its way out...
> 
> especially seeing as apt-get and aptitude are both much easier to deal with
> than dselect in the eyes of everyone I've ever talked to. (Myself included.)

  I used to use aptitude but it gradually got worse up to the point of
being unusable - when I do update nad then upgrade it only lists few
packages to be updated (even though apt-get dist-upgrade lists a lot of
packges to be updated).

  I used to use aptitude this way:

  u (to update package list)
  g (to see what's going to happen)
  g (to make it happen)

  now it doesn't work (the actions are a lot different from what apt-get
dist-upgrade would do)

  what's the secret?

  (I already asked this few times but got no responses - does aptitude
work for anybody?)

  TIA

	erik