Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am also experimenting with upgrading potato to testing now that I have >some more bandwith available. I screwed up big time by doing apt-get update >&& apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. I >tried to remedy by using dselect, but that only caused more conflicts and >essential package removal like bsdutils. > >I think you shouldn't mix apt-get with dselect, but I'd like to hear some >comments on this. Or maybe use deselect to make choices and use upt-get >dselect-upgrade, but I haven't tried if this works.
It does. I mix apt and dselect all the time, as it happens; dselect for regular upgrades and apt for incidental installs (or sometimes dselect for that too, depending on how I feel). dselect works much better if you treat it as the primary interface to package management. Once you get it into a consistent state, it's easy; getting it into a consistent state from a clean install is also not difficult, in my experience. However, it seems that it's quite difficult to get it consistent after the system has been primarily managed using apt for a while. To me, this suggests that apt is doing something eccentric, but it's hard to be sure. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
