-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/06 19:26, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and >> dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, ????. >> To what extent do these tools understand the same data, i.e. to what >> extent can one mix and match between them? >> >> I notice some confusion (someone else's question) about which are the >> 'official' or favored method in debian - but my confusion is even more >> fundamental. To what extent is it safe to follow people's >> recomendations, when one person habitually uses apt-get, another >> mentions aptitude, etc. etc.? >> >> Related to this, I've a problem specific to a combination of aptitude >> and my employer's internal servers. (We've got mirrors of several >> linux distros, with company "value add", which I'm expected to use >> rather than the official distributions.) The people maintaining these >> sites don't seem to use aptitude at all, and I think they've broken >> something, because aptitude always tells me that most upgradeable >> packages are "held" at some current, lower version. (They claim
That's why I use apt-get. >> not to have done this on purpose, which was my first guess, since I >> can imagine them wanting to test and officially 'bless' new versions.) >> Any idea what they could have done, and how I could work around it? >> (I don't think it's debian itself, because my home system - which uses >> the official sites - doesn't have any such problem.) >> >> Perhaps what I really need is some kind of FAQ for coping with the >> large number of package management options and their confusing >> interrelationships. Does any such thing exist? > > All the various programs that you find confusing are just different > user-interface programs that all work with a single packaging system. Yes, but... > If a package is in the Debian repository, and if it can't be installed > by using any one of the user-interface programs, then there is a bug > in the package that needs to be reported to the Debian bug tracking > system. apt-get and aptitude store "history" in different formats. Thus, aptitude seems not to do well on systems where you start out using apt-get. > Different people have different priorities as to what is important > in the twisty turnies of program management. For me, I listen to > the discussion. I try to avoid the program whose advocates shout > the loudest. YMMV ;-) > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFbPahS9HxQb37XmcRAv7EAKCISxOZ6p1ZG6mabXkZktgzV3sicACdHcg9 7vh8HwBZ7y3C/JWRkNrHVwg= =dnc0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
