On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:14:26PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > apt-get also tells what it's about to do and then asks for a confirm. > For extra safety, apt-get -s will do a dry (no action) run.
That is true, but it is still not quite the same. For one, apt-get will make its own choice about what real package to pick if it has to fullfill a depends: some virtual package name. AFAIK anyway, maybe it is time I reread the apt manpages once again. [gtoaster problems] If there is an issue with the quality of the package, file a bug and ask the maintainer to do something about it. Upstreams does something broken is not an excuse, but a reason to work around that in the package. > > > So I thought I'd try just installing the deb. As I said, I thought the > > > version dependency checking happened at the dpkg level. > > > > Yes, but dpkg looks only one step ahead. Apt-get can look more steps > > ahead and walk dpkg around. Dselect gives you an overview before you > > set off. > > dpkg seemed to do more like half a step: it removed the old version, > unpacked the new version, and then at configuration discovered there > were missing dependencies and bailed out. So it only lets you shoot off half a foot at a time. :-) Cheers, Joost
