Bill Harris <bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com> writes: > - I have yet to do the `apt dist-upgrade` (I downloaded all the packages > and then quit), so I've got to do that at some time. > > - My question was whether I > > - reinstall the packages first, and then do the dist-upgrade later, or > > - do the dist-upgrade first, and then reinstall the packages later. > > - I am guessing that I should reinstall the packages first. > > - No matter which order I use, it sounds like I have at least two > choices for the reinstall: > > - `apt-get install <package> --reinstall` > > Thanks; I had guessed the --reinstall would come before install. > > Not that it matters, but, from a bit of reading, it sounds as if > `apt-get install <package>/wheezy` might work, too. > > - `aptitude reinstall <package>` > > Which is, in a way, cleaner, although I seem to recall cautions > about mixing apt-get and aptitude, and this would be mixing them > closely. (Yes, I know I'll be mixing them anyway, if I go back to > aptitude once Wheezy is fully installed.
Starting the first option (reinstall packages first), I did reinstall emacs24, and it brought along a number of other packages. I was going to reinstall dbus, the next in the list I posted, but apt complained that I lack libaudit1. I started to install that, but apt said it would upgrade 494, install 324 new, and /remove/ 1310 packages. That seemed risky. In continuing experimentation, the list of packages with bugs I get when runnign apt-get dist-upgrade changes--or at least the order changes--each time I run it. In addition, if I follow up on individual bugs, sometimes I see mention of sid, which is not part of my sources.list, and I've never run sid on this machine. I know no one can know the answer to this, but what do you see as the risk in just running `apt-get dist-upgrade` in my current state? - I /think/ it might be able to resolve things by itself, and the bugs might turn out to be cases I never see. My other Jessie machine seems to be working fine, except that suspending broke on some update a month or so ago. - In the worst case, I'd need to go to another machine, make a netinstall disk, and start over from scratch. That's an obvious pain, but my /home should be okay (it's backed up, and it's on a separate partition, too). Any suggestions? If I should just keep trying reinstalling, I can do that, but I figure that dist-upgrade might do a better job than me of keeping dependencies in mind. In other words, I get nervous when installing one packages leads to deleting lots of packages. Thanks, Bill
