Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

[Rich Johnson <rjohnson@dogstar-interactive.com>]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:

> On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:10, Alec Berryman wrote:
> > Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400:
> > > Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or  
> > > aptitude or
> > > whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the
> > > dependencies and update those as well. Is this possible? If so, How?
> >
> > 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' do that automatically.
>
> Nope. apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade wants to upgrade a slew of other
> packages besides what I want. I dont want to upgrade the entire  
> system. I
> just want to upgrade privoxy and its dependencies.


The ''upgraded'' dependency is not necessarily compatible with all of  
its dependents.  You might need to upgrade one or more of the _other_  
dependent packages as well.  This can be a real pain to sort out.   
(just think how many packages depend on libc6!)

--rich