James Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:50:01AM +1200, Daniel Lawson wrote:
I've just upgraded a server from 3.0 to 3.1. Aptitude is the "official" way to perform the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1 I believe, due to some deficiencies in apt-get.
I was about to call FUD, but it appears that this is true:
http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes.en.txt -- section 2.1 ... The sarge version of `aptitude' is the preferred program for package management from console. It has proven to be better at dependency resolution than `apt-get'. `aptitude' supports most command line operations of `apt-get'. If you are still using `dselect', you should also give `aptitude' a try as frontend for package management.
And on that note: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00003.html A bug has been discovered in the 3.1r0 CD/DVD images: new installs from these images will have a commented-out entry in /etc/apt/sources.list for "http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates" rather than an active entry for "http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates", and thus will not get security updates by default. This was due to incorrect Release files on the images. New 3.1r0a images will be available shortly to correct this flaw. In the meantime, CD vendors should delay pressing CDs or DVDs of Debian 3.1. We apologise for the inconvenience. -- Sucks to be an early adopter. Have to download the entire thing again today! Craig