On Sat,10.Apr.10, 18:41:15, Clive McBarton wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore. > > I believe that this is not complelely true. What is true is that, on the > command line, in interactive mode, you can use either and it will work > fine. But the options you can pass to aptitude and apt-get are not the same. As I mentioned in a later mail. And the specific behaviour is also different. But there shouldn't be any problem in installing/upgrading/removing/packages with one or the other tool. > Back to the specific question of cron-apt, I tried it myself (replacing > "apt-get" with "aptitude" in its config) to notify me by email of > pending upgrades, and it was useless. I had to remove it. Had I left > apt-get in its config, it probably would have worked. I could probably > dig out or try to reproduce some of the error msgs I got, but far more > helpful for the list would be if someone who ever managed cron-apt with > aptitude (if such a person exists) would post here how they did it. Last time I experimented with cron-apt it did mention that aptitude is not really supported. But I don't see a problem in letting it use apt-get and doing your own package management with aptitude. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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