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Re: Bug#301587: apt: Odd recommendation on dist-upgrade (upgrade gets it right)



On Friday 15 April 2005 06:16 am, Jefferson Cowart wrote:
> I'm not sure if
> this has been discussed before, but it looks like it apt-get tried first to
> upgrade all the packages that were already on the system and out of date
> and then worked from that to resolve any further dependency/conflicts/etc
> problems, that might fix this problem.

  aptitude does something like this to handle upgrades, and it seems to avoid 
the problem.

  Daniel

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