Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:50:25AM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> [BTW, this should be an FAQ: Package managers - what's the difference
> between apt, aptitude, dpkg, dselect, synaptic... ?]
>
> > Yes :-) Try them all by yourself and decide for yourself. Each tool
> > has merits. Question is not "which is better" but "which one suits
> > you".
>
> In a earlier post to this list, I wrote:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:31:19 -0500
> From: Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>
> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> References: <20061117182026.GA523@cromwell.tmiaf>
>
> On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >
> > Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic
> > instead of aptitude.
> >
> > RLH
>
> Au contraire... The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*.
This caught me to read recent release notes.
> http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
> 4.4 Upgrading packages
>
> The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases
> is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer
> decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly.
This assertion to aptitude happened for sarge release note. (fron CVS)
> 4.4.2 Upgrading aptitude
>
> Upgrade tests have shown that etch's version of aptitude is better at
> solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get
> or sarge's aptitude. It should therefore be upgraded first [...]
This was new to sarge release note too. (from CVS)
Interesting. But many of the command line use example for aptitude are
too simplistic rewrite of apt-cache command, I presume. Especially,
"hold".
It is usually better to do these from full screen console mode, for me.
Osamu
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