[Gllug] Aptitude

[Paul Cupis]

Peter Grandi wrote:
>>>>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:47:57 +0100, Jack Bertram
>>>><jack at jbertram.net> said:
> 
> 
> jack> Why would running "aptitude upgrade"
> 
> That's a rather dangerous thing to do. 'dist-upgrade' is well
> defined, global 'upgrade' is a much fuzzier concept.

Rubbish:

  upgrade
          Upgrades installed packages to their most recent version.
          Installed packages will not be removed unless they are unused
          (see the section ``Managing Automatically Installed Packages''
          in the aptitude reference manual); packages which are not
          currently installed will not be installed.

          If a package cannot be upgraded without violating these
          constraints, it will be kept at its current version.

> Also, 'dist-upgrade' to a specifically named edition (eg
> 'sarge') is rather safer than to a state (e.g. 'stable'),
> because the association between editions and states is not
> immutable.

No, but it should be known at the time of running the command. "upgrade"
is much safer than "dist-upgrade" if you are not really paying
attention, and you can always set your source.list file to refer to the
distribution/version by codename rather than by stable/testing/unstable.

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