Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Karl O. Pinc" writes: > On 08/24/2009 02:16:10 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Nicolas François wrote: >> > I propose to only recommend updating aptitude (this will update apt >> > anyway), and add a note for the users who prefer to use apt-get >> rather >> > than aptitude. >>

Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-24 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/24/2009 02:16:10 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Nicolas François wrote: > > I propose to only recommend updating aptitude (this will update apt > > anyway), and add a note for the users who prefer to use apt-get > rather > > than aptitude. > > Fine for me. You can also inc

Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Nicolas François wrote: > I propose to only recommend updating aptitude (this will update apt > anyway), and add a note for the users who prefer to use apt-get rather > than aptitude. Fine for me. You can also include both apt and aptitude on the command-line if you want to en

Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-23 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, (Adding debian-devel for additional comments, and previous contributors to the topic) As mentioned in #533265, the advice to update apt and aptitude at the beginning of an upgrade may fail. With a standard Etch install (i.e. only "standard" is selected in tasksel), apt-utils and aptitude