On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:08:47PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:15:29PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > => > > => Using 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' appears to be safer than > > => upgrading with dselect. The offending packages are held back and > > => netscape, etc., are not marked for removal. > > > > Ahh! I was wondering why I saw around four packages held back when I last > > upgraded. Thanks for that, too!!! Apt-get is truly remarkable. > > I'm too paranoid to use apt-get upgrade... at least with dselect you > actually get so see *which* packages are getting upgraded/removed/etc. > I can't see how blindly using apt-get upgrade can be safer. Anyone > that trashes their system with dselect really should learn to pay a > bit more attention to what they do. :) > > BTW, I took a look at apt-find... I notice on the help screen that > there appears to be no way to explicitly 'hold' a package... was that > intentional, or an oversight? >
apt-get upgrade won't list which packages it wants to upgrade, but will list new packages, packages it will remove and packages held back, giving you a chance to exit before it actually does anything. With dselect, I kept going around in circles on the dependency/conflict resolution screens. If you are really paranoid, you can always run 'apt-get -s upgrade' to simulate what it would do. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
