On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 13:16:58 -0600 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > A a general rule, confirm. It can't hurt (other than the time it > > takes) and might help a lot. You should use the same tool to update > > that you use to upgrade. > > Does synaptic not use the same lists as APT? I thought it was > merely a frontend (some screens of which look very like the > pre-APT dselect from the last century). If by lists you mean sources.list and sources.list.d/*, I believe so (and have no evidence to the contrary). As for synaptic being a front end, someone else will have to answer that. I understand that apt and aptitude have different algorithms for calculating upgrades and dependencies. So it is quite possible I am being over-cautious here. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/