Re: Help with mixed versions, please
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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:16:36AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> 1) Getting dselect (and whatever dependent listings it relies on)
> consistent with the packages I have (and want) on my system. I am
> afraid to turn dselect loose after selecting new packages to install for
> fear it's going to remove most of what I've already chosen - fundamental
> stuff in most cases. It sure says it's going to remove them.
Try using the update option in the menu. dselect's also pretty
cumbersome to deal with in general, I strongly reccommend aptitude
now.
> 2) I don't think I have a good conceptual understanding of how to handle
> package management in Debian. I've read the Apt HowTo, and parts of
> other manuals to do with package management, but they are still
> appearing to me as recipes of how to do things. I haven't figured out
> how it all fits together.
That just takes time, we were all there once. This isn't specific to
packaging, just being in a new OS in general, and especially something
as flexible as unix...
> Once I've added the testing packages to my stable installation, how do I
> keep everything up to date? That's the big question for me now.
Don't. See below.
> It looks like if I comment out the testing sources, the update tries to
> downgrade the packages to match the stable versions. Or did the problem
> of dselect trying to remove all my packages come from some other
> action? I'm confused. Any conceptual help about mixed packages and
> updating would be very welcome - I'm paralyzed until I figure out how to
> handle this.
dselect is trying to do the right thing. Mixing stable with testing
or unstable is always a bad idea if you don't have intimate knowledge
about the dependancies and packages in your system, and almost always
a bad idea if you do.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01644.html
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