Noobie question concerning upgrading, was Re: Daper -> Fiesty

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On 10/3/07, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 07:45 -0300, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:

> > > dist-upgrades with apt-get/aptitude are not supported AT ALL. With good
> > > reason, the only supported path is to use update-manager (which will
> >
> > In ubuntu, you're correct. But IIRC apt-get/aptitude is the default upgrade
> > method in debian.
>
> Yes, but Debian assumes a knowledgeable admin who possesses the
> knowledge I have outlined. It was never different, and every Debian
> dist-upgrade I performed (even without skipping releases) involved some
> troubleshooting.
>

Funny you mention this - I'm already so used to troubleshooting broken
(and unchoosen dependencies) it never occurred me how often I do it. I
gues most of the time I simply consider it an inherent part of the
upgrade process. Even on normal non-dist-upgrade operations, sometimes
when I start the aptitude TUI, after some update-manager/-notifier
routine upgrades, some packages are selected for uninstallation. Never
understood why this happens, but got used to it after some dozens of
times.

I guess I must have been lucky, because I never had the kind of
trouble I had in the test I mentioned. I'd really like to test it
again.