Hi, On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:04:47AM -0700, Joe Riel wrote: > This morning I ran > > $ sudo aptitude update > $ aptitude --simulate safe-upgrade > Resolving dependencies... > open: 16431; closed: 11272; defer: 105; conflict: 54 > > At this point it kept churning; the number of open dependencies kept > increasing. Because of this I haven't run a real upgrade. > How do I determine what is happening and whether a real upgrade > would run normally?
It should not ... but things happen. That is why we recommend using apt-get for such upgrade situation. This was discussed and decioded for release note. Please read Release note and follow. We have reason to recommend apt-get in such situation unfortunately. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-full See note under this section too. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110326124858.gb20...@debian.org
