On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bill Ricker wrote: > >> Steve Scaffidi wrote: >> >>> BTW: aptitude has many advantages over apt-get. I won't go into detail >>> but >>> it's *much* better at handling dependencies esp. with distro upgrades >>> >> >> On Ubuntu, we usually use the ubuntu upgrade manager. but for ssh >> patching servers, i usually just do apt-get. which reminds me .... >> > > We're straying off topic fast, but I just wanted to point out that I > learned the hard way that you don't want to use aptitude to do a > distribution upgrade on Ubuntu. (OK, it wasn't that hard to fix, but it does > break a few things.) Yeah, I agree about the off-topic. I'll just add this one thing... :) WRT aptitude vs. apt-get et al: You're probably right about that, and the Ubuntu and debian docs both agree. Personally, I've had experience to the contrary and it was years ago on debian proper, with a system using a mixture of repositories with pinning and other tweaks. Ever since then I've used aptitude out of comfortability, though ubuntu has lulled me into using upgrade-manager for just about everything on that distro. :-) -- -- Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
