[Breezy]Adept Wizard Upgrade B0rked system

[Derek Broughton]

C Hamel wrote:

> I am a bit puzzled by the Adept Upgrade Wizard vs 'apt-get upgrade' in the
> fact that the wizard installs 14, upgrades 97, removes 4, whereas apt says
> it will be upgrading 80, not upgrading 16 and removing/newly installing
> nothing.
>
I don't use adept, but clearly adept is doing a "dist-upgrade" rather than
an upgrade - this is obvious from the fact that it is offering to remove
files (I can't tell if it's using apt-get or aptitude).  "upgrade", by
definition will _only_ upgrade existing packages.

> What makes all this important to me is the fact that the wizard b0rked my
> system by leaving out multitudinous libs w/o advising me there would be a
> problem of any kind b-4 said upgrade commenced.  Apt, on the other hand is
> leaving out various KDE pkgs.

I'm far more interested in why you think the wizard broke anything.  It
can't "leave out" packages, but if you were using dapper it could install
packages that, themselves, were missing dependencies.  Generally, the only
way to get a broken situation using breezy is if you have non-ubuntu
sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.

> Are both the wizard & apt synonymous?

Yes, but the commands _you_ used, weren't :-)
-- 
derek