Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.
Date	2020-10-27 22:10 +0100
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On Ma, 27 oct 20, 13:03:32, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 15:05:36 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Lu, 26 oct 20, 09:55:00, John Hasler wrote:
> > 
> > I believe someone demonstrated quite recently on list that dpkg has some 
> > limits in the number and/or combination of packages it can deal with at 
> > once, so APT might have to pass them in smaller chunks and/or specific 
> > order (in case of Pre-Depends: maybe?).
> >  
> > > Dpkg is safe but can be rather frustrating.
> > 
> > As far as I'm concerned it does just fine what it was designed to do.
> 
> Years ago, I used to do mega installs with dpkg, copying the contents
> of /var/cache/apt/archives/ from one machine onto a caddy, and then
> installing them all on another.
> 
> I'm probably the person who recently demonstrated dpkg's (in)ability
> to cleanly install 1558 packages simultaneously without help:
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/07/msg00032.html
> (its References are all dead links because they fall in the previous month.)

Indeed, this is the experiment I was thinking of.
 
> This followed a demonstration of apt-get's reversibility:
> specifying 271 "top-level" packages that resulted in 1558 being
> installed altogether, and all 1558 being cleanly purged again.

Somehow I'm still under the impression that this is supposed to work 
with dpkg only.

You might want to post your findings to debian-dpkg for further 
investigation.

Kind regard,
Andrei
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aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade. Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:40 +0100
  Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade. Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-25 22:10 +0100
    Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 15:20 +0100
      Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade. John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-26 16:00 +0100
        Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 14:10 +0100
          Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-27 19:10 +0100
            Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 22:10 +0100

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