A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Christopher Chan [2009-03-09  8:56 +0800]:
>   
>> That's great. What about package management on the command line then? 
>> What is the aptitude replacement?
>>     
>
> apt-get/aptitude for installing packages are just fine, and supported.
>
> We just don't guarantee that an entire dist-upgrade from, say 6.06 to
> 8.04 or even 8.04 to 8.10 works with apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> If you are willing to clean up a bit after dist-upgrade, or running it
> several times perhaps (if the first one broke on a file conflict, or
> whatever), then you can still use dist-upgrade, but you should be a
> bit familiar with apt-get then.
>   
Thanks. Now I just have to wait for d-i to get up to par (working 
automatic lvm on raid), kiosktool to be ported over to KDE 4.x and 
another chance to put Ubuntu on the school desktops.