Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:25:19PM +0200, Wolfgang Mader wrote: in deed the documentation is very clear concerning the command line options. What I was not able to figure out is what aptitude performs in gui mode when I hit U to schedule all

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote: I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies. When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', though, I get a list of 73 packages that are to be

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Corey Hickey
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote: I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies. When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', though, I get a list of

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Lionel Elie Mamane: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote: I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies. When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', though, I get a list of 73

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello, in deed the documentation is very clear concerning the command line options. What I was not able to figure out is what aptitude performs in gui mode when I hit U to schedule all upgradeable packages for an upgrade. I guess upgrade (which is equivalent to safe-upgrade) is used. Does s.o.

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:25:19PM +0200, Wolfgang Mader wrote: in deed the documentation is very clear concerning the command line options. What I was not able to figure out is what aptitude performs in gui mode when I hit U to schedule all upgradeable packages for an upgrade. I guess

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Karl Schmidt
Corey Hickey wrote: I don't have anything non-default in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. They made a change (a very bad change in my mind) that has it install recommended files and suggested files by default. To go back to the sane old way: Create a file called local in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d edit

'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-05 Thread Corey Hickey
I don't know if this is amd64-specific, but it's only happening on my amd64 Sid system, so I'm asking here first. I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies. When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade',