Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
It would be easier to answer the question if you provided specific examples of packages that apt-get didn't install and aptitude did. A full copy/paste of the upgrade preview from both programs would be particularly helpful. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:00:25AM -0600, Mumia W.. wrote: > Javier Barroso wrote: >> On 01/02/2010 04:49 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: >>> I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than >>> aptitude because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new >>> programs (do a full-

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-04 Thread Mumia W..
Jochen Schulz On 01/02/2010 04:49 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do a full-upgrade). [...] The difference between "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" is that the

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-04 Thread Mumia W..
Javier Barroso wrote: On 01/02/2010 04:49 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do a full-upgrade). [...] I'm not sure, but maybe aptitude wants to install recommends.

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mumia W..: > > I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude > because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do > a full-upgrade). The difference between "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" is that the latter may *remove* packages in order to upgr

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-02 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: > I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude > because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do a > full-upgrade). > > I specifically entered the command "aptitude safe-upgrade"; however, it >

aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-02 Thread Mumia W..
I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do a full-upgrade). I specifically entered the command "aptitude safe-upgrade"; however, it wanted to install a lot of extra packages--many more than "ap