Andrew M.A. Cater on 11/12/05 10:13, wrote:
A while ago, aptitude was the recommended tool for the upgrade to Sarge and that suggests the obvious. That prompted my switch from apt-get. Recently, I upgraded to a 0.4.x release of aptitude, which featured a wonderful (albeit imperfect, as some bug reports have shown) problem solver (for lack of a better name), making a great tool even better.Aptitude is good but _doesn't_ necessarily use the same database as apt/dselect. This can cause problems if you mix tools. Aptitude is the odd one out here IMHO but no one seems minded to fix this. Aptitude was only recommended in the above case because it sorted some instances of particular dependency resolution IIRC.
Do apt/dselect and aptitude share the same database as far as the currently installed modules are concerned, ignoring whether the packages were installed by apt or by aptitude?
I'm currently basing part of my config backup script on the results of dpkg --get-selectionand because I download pkgs sometimes with apt and sometimes with aptitude, does this mean the dpkg --get-selection may ignore something that I just downloaded with aptitude?
Adam