On Wed 07 Dec 2022 at 15:32:04 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 13:16:58 -0600 David Wright 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).
No, that list in under the user's control and there's no avoiding it; I meant APT's lists in /var/lib/apt/lists/, written by apt update. > 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. Cheers, David.