| Art Alexion on 30 Oct 2006 15:41:33 -0000 |
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On Monday 30 October 2006 00:14, Will Dyson wrote: > On 10/29/06, sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote: > > fwiw, i'm starting to hear a lot of noise about upgrades to edgy > > similarly sucking. the common thread in all of these seems to be (a) the > > use of apt-get instead of the ubuntu upgrade-nanny^H^H^H^H^Hmanager and > > (b) the presence of other non-ubuntu-installed packages such as > > automatix/easyubuntu. > > I've had decent luck with using aptitude for updates of both Debian > and Ubuntu. It makes much better dependency resolution choices than > apt-get. > > I do think that putting specific knowledge about the upgrade in > update-manager is the wrong way to go, but I can see the expediency of > it. My understanding is that aptitude keeps a dependency log that makes package removal more thorough and accurate, as well as handling "suggested" and "recommended" packages better. I also am led to understand that you either use aptitude all the time or not at all, so I never switched since I used apt-get for a long time before discovering aptitude. Dapper seems to run adept in the background to notify the user of available updates. Adept does not seem to have any advantages over apt-get; more like a KDE version of synaptic. I like synaptic better than apt-cache (or adept) for finding packages. I understand the problem with the dapper -> edgy dist-upgrade requires the command line apt-get because some incompatible upgrades are being made to the gui interface during the upgrade process. My problems seem to have nothing to do with that as I used apt-get dist-upgrade. It just went badly because of some buggy packages that wanted to overwrite each others files. This seemed to through the entire upgrade off; even packages not directly affected -- for example, my kernel, if you look to the beginning of this thread. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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