Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: wishlist
Hi
When upgrading from etch to lenny I had to go through several cycles
of 'aptitude install package; aptitude safe-upgrade' before the final
'aptitude full-upgrade' run. Using 'aptitude full-upgrade' without the
preceding 'aptitude install package; aptitude safe-upgrade' cycles
would have forced me to (unnecessary) remove a lot of packages.
Doing this cycles I had to poke around and guess which package to
install next to resolve more and more dependencies for the new lenny
packages (without losing other installed packages), so that the
following 'aptitude safe-upgrade' gets the best chances to upgrade
as many packages as possible (as it cannot install required package
dependencies itself).
Having a command which does the same as 'aptitude safe-upgrade' does
but additionally upgrades all packages which require the (automatic)
installation of new packages (because of new dependencies) would require
far less of guessing and would save a lot of time (each run of 'aptitude
safe-upgrade' took about 10 minutes on an Athlon 4000+ and about half an
hour on my old laptop).
Such a command would provide a more powerful, but still safe way to
upgrade a system (also see bug #198658).
Regards
Uwe
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 02:43:34
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f87000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7ea6000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e68000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e61000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d9d000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7cdc000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b86000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b71000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b58000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a69000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a43000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a36000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78db000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78d7000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78d2000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f88000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (850, 'stable'), (650, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [apti 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.8.1 Enables support for package tags
pn tasksel <none> (no description available)
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