Potato->woody upgrade fails
Gary Woodman
antigramp at yahoo.com.au
Fri Nov 8 14:01:38 EST 2002
--- Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
> Sam Couter wrote:
> > dselect is the recommended front-end to APT. apt-get is a back-end
> > tool to use the APT library on a low level. It doesn't support all
> > of the features that dselect does (Recommends and Suggests, for
> > example).
>
> But before using dselect, make sure you've got enough RAM, processor
> speed and wallclock time. Due to the nature of the databases used by
> dselect (basically flat files), just launching and immediately
> quitting dselect takes about half an hour on eg: 486 with 8Mb RAM
(and
> apt-get update takes 12 hours on this stupid Industrial PC I've got
> which only uses about 1/5th of the 16Mb RAM that's installed).
>
> The apt-* tools are much faster than dselect because they don't mess
> with building complex dependency/recommendation/suggestion trees.
That would presumably be why the Release Guide:
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-dselectupgrade
says: "The recommended method for upgrading to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is
using the package management tool dselect. This tool makes safer
decisions about packages than apt-get."
Dselect has worked well for me in the past, however, I'm happy to use
apt-get if it does the job. But I expected that upgrading the whole
distribution would produce the most complex
dependency/recommendation/suggestion tree possible. I'm trying to
follow recommendations, but it did a moist, fruity fart in my lap.
Gary
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos
http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
More information about the linux
mailing list