On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > I used aptitude for upgrades from one release to the next even when they > were recommending apt a few years ago. I've even used it once in a > chroot so I could go on running my server while upgrading a copy of the > system. The only problems I've ever run into were running out of disk > space during the install, and a few packages whose > configuration required already running on a new kernel (that > was in the chroot, which had a new kernel but was still using the old > one). But they configured themselves just fine when I booted into the > new system.
Seems I was out of date. With 0.6.6; at least some of the multiarch handling issues were fixed, and there were further changes since that. There are still bugs open against aptitude for multiarch support [1], so I'd still be careful. Nothing of it is really terrible, but it requires being careful enough to look at the output properly before accepting changes. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aptitude.html Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
