Anuerin Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is the first time i have heard of apt-hell. i thought > debian-based distros were free from this "rpm curse" but i guess > upgrading something as big as this stable release is bound to get > infected by the upgrading hell.
From Bill Allombert's mail on debian-devel-announce: > 1) Circular dependencies are cause of lot of breakage. Worse, the > problem that plague the woody to sarge upgrade are not circular > dependency in sarge but in woody. > [...] > 2) apt and aptitude reliance on C++ make them quite painful to upgrade > before doing the dist-upgrade due to C++ ABI changes. I wouldn't necessarily call it an apt-hell, though in keeping the facts straight, it could be when you're dealing with upgrading to a full sarge (meaning, with all those pkgs in the 15 or so CDs). For the 1), In most instances people (especially those maintaining mixed sarge/sid systems) will just upgrade bits of the system instead of doing just an `apt-get -y dist-upgrade'. As for 2), that seems unavoidable, unless the apt maintainers rewrite it in another language less impervious to such ABI changes... There's bound to be breakage, indeed. But keeping a sane upgrade effort could save you bigtime, in bandwidth and in sysadmin time. -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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