Hi, On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:01:38AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several places > that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get, I first tried with it. > I started with only 1 line in sources.list: > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > and tried several times "aptitude safe-upgrade" > Each time, aptitude stayed indefinitely on "resolving dependencies" and did > nothing else. > I then issued: "apt-get dist-upgrade", and all worked perfectly, in less > than 30 minutes.
So your experience is that apt-get is better for such case :-) The release note "4.4.6. Upgrading the system" has: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-full The upgrade process for other releases recommended the use of aptitude for the upgrade. This tool is not recommended for upgrades from lenny to squeeze. > My question: is it better to also revert to apt-get for package management, > or is the problem specific to the upgrade to a new release? That was the consensus among DDs when releasing squeeze :-) The rational for this is experience such as yours. "Almost same" is not exactly "the same" between apt-get/aptitude. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Maybe, I should put more warning since aptitude dependency behaviour seems to be changing a bitfor command line. 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/20120325150858.GA701@localhost