upgrades

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 9/26/08, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:

> From: David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca>
> Subject: Re: upgrades
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 9:56 AM
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> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > My real question is "Does not synaptic or adept
> do version upgrades as well as update-manager handling all
> the dependencies adequately".  Most or many people at
> least recommend using synaptic for upgrading as it's
> supposed to handle dependencies well. Is there any package
> manager that does just as well as update-manager is the
> question?
> 
> I think I know what you're asking now.
> 
> Update-manager handles day-to-day package upgrades just as
> easily as
> Synaptic or adept afaik.  But when it comes to Distribution
> Upgrades
> Update-manager has special logic/programming to resolve the
> weird
> situations which arise as well as (previously mentioned)
> making sure
> depreciated packages are removed and new packages required
> by the new
> distribution *but not necessarily by your already installed
> packages*
> are installed.
> 
> That is, Ibex proper may need package X which is not a
> dependency of any
> of your other installed packages, thus performing an
> upgrade via
> Synaptic etc. may result with it not being installed,
> whereas
> Update-manager would make sure it was installed.
> 
Ok, that's the answer I was looking for.  Thanks for that, David.  I'm hearing that all the other package managers doesn't have the special logic for wierd situations that update-manager has.  I'll remember that now and post the proper answer on the subject the next time I try to help someone.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net