Derek Martin said:
> Today, Tony Lambiris gleaned this insight:
>
> > Paul Lussier wrote:
> >
> > > There is no package manager around that is "God's Gift to SysAdmins". In
> > > fact, I personally find package managers to be a curse :)
> >
> > very true, but its soooooooo much easier to do apt-get -u update,
> > instead of downloading all RPM updates, then finding out which RPMs
> > are already installed, then installing the associative RPMs. Its a
>
> That's really a matter of opinion. I've seen experienced debian users
> really break their system by doing that, because it upgraded a bunch of
> stuff that really shouldn't have been upgraded. I'm no lover of RPM, but
> no one has been able to convince me that APT is better. Just different.
> IOW, you trade one set of strengths for another. For example, I think RPM
> handles querying much more intuitively and completely. And I don't have
> to deal with obscure options to seven different commands to get the
> information I want.
Well, the exact series of commands are:
apt-get update # go out & download the latest lists of what's available
apt-get dist-upgrade #upgrade my distribution to the current latest, resolving
all dependencies.
The packages.gz file includes not just the name of the package, but info on
the conflicts, depends, etc, for dist-upgrade to determine what is needed or
if it will cause problems on your system.
Assuming your /etc/apt/sources.list is pointed to potato (the current stable),
breaking the system is darned near impossible, since stable is, well, stable.
Most of the updates are security fixes or bug fixes to the packages. Potato
went through three (that I recall) test cycles to ensure it worked correctly.
However, if you point your sources.list to testing (which I have), an
occasional app will have problems (although not too many - the requirements
for testing include compiling on all six architectures and no release-critical
bugs reported for 10 days). Now, if you point your sources.list to unstable,
well, unstable is, um, unstable - use at your own risk, it may break.
jeff
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