Dapper to Edy upgrade successful

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 22:41 -0700, Art Edwards wrote:
> John DeCarlo wrote:
> > On 10/29/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 29/10/06, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I upgraded Dapper to Edgy on a Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop. It went quite
> >>> smoothly. I just changed "dapper" with "edgy" in /etc/apt/sources.list
> >>> file and did 'sudo apt-get update' and then 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'.
> > 
> > Just a note that this is not guaranteed to work.
> > 
> >>From the Ubuntu-Dev mailing list, discussing the causes of problems
> > with upgrading:
> > 
> > * Using apt-get dist-upgrade rather than upgrade-manager
> >   - Could this be  reduced by emphaising on the release notes, on
> > ubuntu.com and in the support channels, the correct way to upgrade?
> > 
> > 
> Doesn't the upgrade manager simply call apt-get or aptitude, which in
> turn call dpkg as part of their function?
> 
> I have read on the ubuntu forum that aptitude is recommended over
> apt-get because it is better with dependency issues. dselect is also
> better. Finally, dpkg can get you out of jams when a package wants to
> overwrite files owned bye another package.
> 
> Art Edwards
> 

Yep aptitude is better, because it gives you the solutions to conflicts.
I upgraded from Dapper to Edgy using apt-get, then my X server wouldn't
start. Then used aptitude to go through the held packages and upgraded
them while resolving problems. 

I think we can agree that each of these package management programs have
their own uses. Besides I rather have redundant tools to do the same
job, than having to rely on just a single tool !!

-- 
Saru
ECS, University of Southampton, UK