Re: apt-get upgrade advice
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:37:34AM -0400, Graeme Tank wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:59:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Have you tried aptitude? It's like dselect but with a bit more brain.
>
> I recall using aptitude briefly as a Debian novice on stable, but found
> apt-cache (search|show) and apt-get install easier for upgrades within
> stable. I can easily imagine others preferring aptitude.
>
> Later (just recently), I wanted to make the move to testing and found
> Colin Watson's May 9 post:
>
> I much prefer upgrading with dselect. I've spent too much time fixing
> very subtle problems with 'apt-get dist-upgrade' that really
> shouldn't have gone wrong (debconf and xbase-clients upgrade problems
> come to mind) that I don't trust it.
>
> I repeat it here, because the upgrade from stable to testing with
> dselect went smoothly ... kudos to those responsible.
>
> After the move to a testing/unstable system, I found dselect easy to use
> to hold and unhold packages. In this way aptitude would work well, too.
> Thanks Paul, I'll check it out. (However, because aptitude is a
> front-end for apt, perhaps it's best to use dselect for dist-upgrades as
> Colin recommends.)
I'd expect aptitude to do a better job than apt-get, because I believe
that offering the user a bit more control in the upgrade process than
just dist-upgrade's take-it-or-leave-it approach is a good thing.
However, I've not tried it so I can't make any recommendations there.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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