[ale] aptitude upgrade deprecated?

Jack Schneider puck at dp-indexing.com
Fri Nov 16 08:14:00 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 07:04 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 07:37 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > what does this mean?
> > 
> > # aptitude upgrade
> > W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead. 
> > 
> > I read the man page, but I'm not sure I understand the difference, or 
> > specifically in MY case what it should/shouldn't do..
> > here is the entire text:
> > 
> > # aptitude upgrade
> > W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead.
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Reading extended state information      
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Reading task descriptions... Done  
> > Building tag database... Done    
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   eject libfaac0 libperl5.8 libpurple-bin libpurple0 perl perl-base 
> >   perl-modules pidgin pidgin-data 
> > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
> >   perl-doc 
> > 10 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 16.5MB of archives. After unpacking 25.6kB will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi, Paul
> 
> I think the recommended version is aptitude dist-upgrade.
> Works for me...
> I think aptitude upgrade <your pkg>  still works..
>  
> I'm running "lenny" on a AMD64 intel.
> Linux Speeduke 2.6.22-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 23:43:59 UTC 2007 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> 
> Hope that helps...
> 
> Jack
> 
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OOPS!!!

I think aptitude upgrade <your pkg>  still works..BAD!!! MY VERY BAD!!!
Doesn't work either....

Jack



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