[Aptitude-devel] Bug#780028: init: aptitude upgrade from wheezy to jessie does not install systemd-sysv

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Paul,

Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-03-08 at 19:35 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Why in the world would someone use apt-get and aptitude alternately
> > during a dist-upgrade?
> 
> First apt-get upgrade does the easy upgrades.
> Then aptitude upgrade does the slightly harder upgrades (new packages).

I see that point due to the different default for this behaviour --
which is one reason why "aptitude upgrade" is deprecated in favour of
"aptitude safe-upgrade".

But apt-get has a commandline switch to behave that way, too:
"apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade"

> Then apt-get dist-upgrade does the easy dist-upgrades.
> Then aptitude dist-upgrade does the harder dist-upgrades where manual
> intervention via the GUI might be needed.

Ok, I also understand the latter reasoning. But doesn't that mean that
there are thing "apt-get dist-upgrade" can't/doesn't solve? Or is this
step only necessary if "apt-get dist-upgrade" didn't solve everything,
e.g. with 3rd-party repos or such?

> I've found during upgrade testing this is a nicer way to do things.

Hrm, ok. I probably can't say too many things about that as I'm one of
the "dist-upgrade in many little steps with aptitude" guy and hence
don't care a lot about default dependency resolutions.

		Regards, Axel
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