Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

[Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Lisi wrote:

> aptitude full-upgrade is the equivalent of apt-get dist-upgrade.  aptitude
> safe-upgrade has different checks.

  It is what is written in the man, but experience shows this is not true.
  After installing kernel 3.2 I tried both:
  apt-get dist-upgrade, which gave
    1060 upgraded, 312 newly installed, 18 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
  aptitude full-upgrade gave
    1050 packages upgraded, 313 newly installed, 30 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    and then asks for removal of 18 other packages.

  which means that aptitude wants to remove 52 packages, and apt-get 18
  It's difficult to say what is the good choice, but anyway then are not equivalent.
  (apt-get upgrade gives:
     801 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 261 not upgraded.)


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Pierre Frenkiel