On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 at 11:51:47PM +0100, john lewis wrote:
> In case anyone who normally uses aptitude from the command line but
> hasn't done so recently there are some changes you might like to know
> about.
>
> 'aptitude upgrade' is now deprecated, use 'aptitude safe-upgrade'
> instead
>
> you can still use aptitude dist-upgrade but aptitude full-upgrade is
> preferred.
>
> there are probably other changes so you'll need to look at the man
> pages or apt documentation to see what has changed.
>
> Can't see any reason for the changes in the Debian changelog. I
> got the first warning not to use 'upgrade' only a couple of days ago.
NOTE:
These changes are in Debian Lenny and Sid only, stable Etch and older
do not contain these changes. I don't know which Debian derivatives have
what, but I'd guess that all the current stable derivatives still don't
have these options.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
-- anon
