Re: Will aptitude know what apt did during the upgrade?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:29:40AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:17:36PM +0200, "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > Giovanni Rapagnani wrote:
> > > We need information for the writing of the release-notes
> > >
> > > In other words:
> > > If I use apt only for dist-upgrading to lenny and then I turn back to
> > > aptitude, will aptitude always know which packages were automatically
> > > installed ?
> > As I know, answer is yes regarding apt and aptitude version that are in Lenny.
> > In case you first upgrade apt & aptitude and then do 'apt-get dist-upgrade',
> > info about automatically installed packages will be shared. Michael, Daniel,
> > correct me if I am wrong.
>
> That's right.
>
> Daniel
That's a significant change from the apt I know from before. It's a
welcome change.
-- hendrik
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