> From: d...@sherohman.org > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:27:42PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> By running upgrade before dist-upgrade, you reduce complexity by >> maximising the compatibility of packages with each other. When >> lenny was replaced by squeeze, even these two steps were >> insufficient; the kernel and udev needed replacing as a pair after >> the (lenny) upgrade and before the (squeeze) dist-upgrade. > I was around for lenny => squeeze, but had forgotten about that. It > could well be the explanation for my current procedure, though, which > is: > apt-get update > apt-get install dpkg apt > apt-get upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade > The basic idea being to first get the latest tools in place, then do the > simple upgrades, and save the complex ones for last. > I also used to stage large upgrades in multiple steps, doing only a > dozen or two packages at a time and selecting dependencies first, > leaving dependent packages for later (when possible), again in the > interest of keeping each batch of updates as simple as possible, but > I"ve stopped doing that since the tools started distinguishing between > manually-installed packages and those which were automatically selected > to satisfy dependencies.
I must have been lucky then, because I have a system that I only use for entertainment, audio-visual/home-cinema, a chess game, and mindless browsing. I have only used synaptic - reload - upgrade. When I run dist-upgrade it found nothing to do. When I run autoclean and purge it had nothing to do. I recently remember a coupld of times that it asked me to drop a package that was no-longer needed, in synaptic, and I thought only dist-upgrade would do such a thing, therefore my incorrect assumption. I always thought synpatic was just a gui for apt/apt-get and all options/command were converted to menu items. Whenever I tried aptitude I hated it and want nothing to do with it. > Dave Sherohman (AK)
