On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > > > This makes me wonder if we should think about dropping autoup as > > the preferred way to upgrade to hamm, and switch to apt. On the one > > hand, autoup has been tested pretty thouroghly and we shouldn't risk > > postponing debian 2.0 to work out bugs in apt. On the other hand, > > I've never seen autoup as anything but a hack. Apt also lets people > > accomplish the entire bo -> hamm upgrade from inside dselect, which > > is much cleaner.
i agree. if apt can do it and is ready in time for testing then we should certainly drop autoup and use apt instead. autoup *is* just a hack to get around a few deficiencies in dselect/'dpkg -iGROEB'. if it's no longer needed, then throw it away....it served it's purpose for the time it *was* needed. > Well, not to belittle auto-up, but has it been kept up with the new > bo->hamm elements? yep. > Dpkg now depends on libstdc++ for instance. i released a new version to cope with this (and slang dependancies and other stuff) only a week or so ago. i update it as required, and as people inform me that it has problems. > As far as bugs in apt go, I have been running a beta for the past > month on alot of different machines and system and people. I have > monitored about 5 bo upgrades that apt didn't have any problem with > (there were package bugs though) if apt can do a complete bo -> hamm upgrade without requiring the user to install a few packages by hand then we should use it. > The very nice thing about apt is that it is highly deterministic in > it's ordering, if you do one upgrade you can be pretty sure that alot > of other similar ones will work correctly as well. I tried to do alot > to make things happen in a highly predictable and constant order. yes, i really like apt. i've been using it to upgrade my own systems for a few weeks now. it works. i've used 'apt-get upgrade' from the command line, and apt as a dselect access method...i am very impressed with apt's performance. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]