Mon, 16 May 2005

Important information for woody -> sarge upgrades

Might not be new to most DDs, but according to my experience at the small developer gathering here in Guetersloh and after reading some upgrade reports in different mailing lists, it is not yet well know:

Citing from the release-notes of the upcoming sarge release: The recommended method of upgrading is to use "aptitude", as described here.

The release notes are quite unknown, but are quite important!

Beside some thing like better / other dependency resolution, consideration of recommends / suggests, the most important feature is, that aptitude remembers which packages are installed by the admin, and which packages are just installed as dependency (I think, synaptic has a similar feature, but I didn't played with it yet).

So, since people will start doing this, and talking about that, please spread it: There are release notes, and you should upgrade with Sarges aptitude.

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