Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[I hope I got the attributions correctly, as far as I can tell I'm only responding to John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell, not to berenger.morel@, from what appears to have been a private reply] Le 11.06.2014 08:41, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell a écrit : NO. APT does not break

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-12 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:18:21 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com napísal: reduce the size of your /var/lib/dpkg/available. HOW ? well just open the file and delete stuff and save ! ok. there are too many ways to choose how. back up before doing it. and don't delete

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.06.2014 08:41, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.06.2014 17:10, The Wanderer a écrit : Maybe it's possible to configure aptitude so that it doesn't do that... but if so, I would think that configuration should be the default,

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-10 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.06.2014 17:10, The Wanderer a écrit : Maybe it's possible to configure aptitude so that it doesn't do that... but if so, I would think that configuration should be the default, because as things stand it seems almost worse than useless for anything but the simplest operations. Can't

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread David Dušanić
08.06.2014, 15:10, Gour g...@atmarama.net: David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com writes:  I think you can also use aptitude on sid but I really prefer apt. So, you believe aptitude is no better than apt in resolve package deps (in Sid) ? It is my personal preference. I never understood

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 09 iun 14, 08:35:44, Dalios wrote: # apt-get clean apt-get autoclean apt-get autoremove apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade A few comments: - autoclean after clean is redundant - I don't think clearing your cache *before* the upgrade is such a good idea

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread berenger . morel
Le 07.06.2014 11:58, Slavko a écrit : Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 7 Jun 2014 09:48:44 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch napísal: Hello all, I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... Possibly my installation is now in such a

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.06.2014 08:40, Thierry de Coulon a écrit : I guess no Debian package manager likes this mix of origins. I took a look at pinning, but there is no simple solution there either. I am quite used to play with lot of versions of softwares through aptitude, and never had real problems. Ah,

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread Dalios
On 06/09/2014 11:45 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 09 iun 14, 08:35:44, Dalios wrote: # apt-get clean apt-get autoclean apt-get autoremove apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade A few comments: - autoclean after clean is redundant - I don't think clearing your cache

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 11:10:02PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2014 21:41:17 Slavko wrote: apt-get is quicker than aptitude and has (by the release note) The release notes have not been consistent about which they recommend for a particular upgrade. Both have been

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 09 iun 14, 13:19:33, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I also have played with pinning in the past. I must admit, I agree with you, it not a very good solution, since you need to progressively add every dependency of the tool you want to upgrade, or automatical upgrades will fail.

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 June 2014 14:40:37 Chris Bannister wrote: The release notes have not been consistent about which they recommend for a particular upgrade.  Both have been recommended on occasion. For the same release? Of course not. The release notes are written for *each* release, and

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 09 iun 14, 14:55:26, Dalios wrote: Never tried apt before so after your message I decided to research a little. Searching for info on apt is quite tricky as the web is full of pages on apt-get and aptitude etc. Searching for apt vs apt-get returned this reddit thread which is just a

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-09 Thread Joe
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 01:40:37 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 11:10:02PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2014 21:41:17 Slavko wrote: apt-get is quicker than aptitude and has (by the release note) The release notes have not

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 08 June 2014 00.10:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2014 21:41:17 Slavko wrote: apt-get is quicker than aptitude and has (by the release note) The release notes have not been consistent about which they recommend for a particular upgrade. Both have been recommended on

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Gour
Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch writes: Hello Thierry. This being said, pure wheezy simply can't work on my machine (no graphics, no network, not even a hard disc...) so the only other choice is another distribution until Jessie becomes stable. I can't stand Ubuntu(s), but openSuSE

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 7 Jun 2014 23:10:02 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com napísal: I prefer aptitude because I know what I am doing with it (sort of) and because I don't have such a plethora of commands: apt-get, apt-cache, apt-file etc. to remember. But I use apt-x on occasion since it is

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Gour
Slavko li...@slavino.sk writes: Then i run aptitude and after some keypress is see, that there is one conflict with some co-package (cgi plugin) from old uwsgi version. I must say that I'm still quite noobie when it comes to package management on Debian mostly using apt-get/synaptic and I

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 08 iun 14, 12:27:04, Gour wrote: Slavko li...@slavino.sk writes: Then i run aptitude and after some keypress is see, that there is one conflict with some co-package (cgi plugin) from old uwsgi version. I must say that I'm still quite noobie when it comes to package management on

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 07 iun 14, 09:48:44, Thierry de Coulon wrote: Hello all, I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... Possibly my installation is now in such a state that I should reinstall, but everything *is* working. Anyway: -

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sun, 08 Jun 2014 12:27:04 +0200 Gour g...@atmarama.net napísal: Slavko li...@slavino.sk writes: Then i run aptitude and after some keypress is see, that there is one conflict with some co-package (cgi plugin) from old uwsgi version. I must say that I'm still quite noobie

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread David Dušanić
08.06.2014, 12:27, Gour g...@atmarama.net: I must say that I'm still quite noobie when it comes to package management on Debian mostly using apt-get/synaptic and I read/heard somewhere that for Sid those are recommended over aptitude? Do I miss something and/or what would be recommended

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 08 June 2014 12:55:26 Slavko wrote: Migration from apt-get/aptitude to Synaptic must be safe. The problem in opposite direction, i.e. from Synaptic to apt-get/aptitude, where Synaptic lack some functionality about the marking/removing the automatically installed packages. I have on

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 01:55:26PM +0200, Slavko wrote: AFAIK, the functionality of the apt-get and aptitude is compatible in these days, with only one difference - the ncurses interface in aptitude. And more human-readable logs in /var/log/aptitude. -- debil :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Gour
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Especially on sid aptitude (in interactive mode) can be very useful, but beware of #570377. Hmm.. There is no procedure, just use which one you like/need/etc. Iirc, one has to be careful when migrating from one tool to the other in order not

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Gour
Slavko li...@slavino.sk writes: You can simply ignore the sid word in my post. Ahh, OK. Good to know. ;) Using Synaptic seems to be safe (in mean of the original problem in this thread). Maybe I shoud read the whole thread... AFAIK, the functionality of the apt-get and aptitude is

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Gour
David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com writes: I think you can also use aptitude on sid but I really prefer apt. So, you believe aptitude is no better than apt in resolve package deps (in Sid) ? Sincerely, Gour -- In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Bzzz
On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:04:17 +0200 Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: I do not mind the interface, just wondering which is more suitable for Sid considering that the dynamic of admin work is a bit different than when one uses stable distro? I use synaptic and sometimes dselect (much more on

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Gour
D.E. Bil kas...@gmail.com writes: And more human-readable logs in /var/log/aptitude. That's a good point. Thanks. Sincerely, Gour -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 08 iun 14, 15:00:58, Gour wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Especially on sid aptitude (in interactive mode) can be very useful, but beware of #570377. Hmm.. I'm right now testing this in apt.conf // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 08 iun 14, 15:07:31, Gour wrote: David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com writes: I think you can also use aptitude on sid but I really prefer apt. So, you believe aptitude is no better than apt in resolve package deps (in Sid) ? aptitude and apt have different resolvers. At some

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 08 iun 14, 14:19:26, David Dušanić wrote: I think running sid is just a matter of how good you can drive the Debian package manager, be it aptitude or apt. That's a fairly good description in my opinion :) But I would never use something graphical (synaptic) to make my upgrades.

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:57:39PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: Thierry de Coulon: I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... In addition to the good advice regarding automatically installed packages that has already been

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/08/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:57:39PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: Thierry de Coulon: I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... In

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Joe
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 13:33:28 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2014 12:55:26 Slavko wrote: Migration from apt-get/aptitude to Synaptic must be safe. The problem in opposite direction, i.e. from Synaptic to apt-get/aptitude, where Synaptic lack some functionality

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Slavko: Sure, here is today example (it comes from my Raspbian with recompiled packages from sid in my own repo): LANG=C apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: uwsgi

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-08 Thread Dalios
On 06/08/2014 06:10 PM, The Wanderer wrote: Likewise FWIW, I invariably use apt-get, because aptitude routinely recommends dependency-resolution solutions which involve not doing anything like what I requested - and indeed often involve removing the very package I requested to be installed -

Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Thierry de Coulon
Hello all, I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... Possibly my installation is now in such a state that I should reinstall, but everything *is* working. Anyway: - searching for broken packages gives 0 packages in synatiptic

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Joe
On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 09:48:44 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch wrote: Hello all, I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... Possibly my installation is now in such a state that I should reinstall, but everything

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 7 Jun 2014 09:48:44 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch napísal: Hello all, I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... Possibly my installation is now in such a state that I should reinstall, but

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread David Dušanić
07.06.2014, 09:48, Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch: Hello all, I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... Possibly my installation is now in such a state that I should reinstall, but everything *is* working. Anyway: -

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 07 June 2014 11.58:41 Slavko wrote: Ahoj, (...) You need to learn one thing - the A mark in the aptitude, eg (rest of lines removed): ilibpam0g-dev i A libpam0g ^^^ (...) Hope this help you. Thanks Slavko. I'm not sure I got everything, but it shows the way to go:

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 7 Jun 2014 12:22:04 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcou...@decoulon.ch napísal: Thanks Slavko. I'm not sure I got everything, but it shows the way to go: learn using aptitude. Don't worry. If you uninstall something, you can always install it back (remember the + key?) :) Aptitude is

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
A step before that maybe, to take further what Slavko proposed, to sort out packages which are dependencies or recommendations of other packages which are not marked automatically installed. The aptitude command-line search can help here: $ aptitude search '~i!~M(~R~i|~Rrecommends:~i)' will show

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Jochen Spieker
Thierry de Coulon: I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... In addition to the good advice regarding automatically installed packages that has already been given I have one question: why do you want to use aptitude? I used

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 7 Jun 2014 21:57:39 +0200 Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de napísal: Thierry de Coulon: I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I don't want to make mistakes... In addition to the good advice regarding automatically installed

Re: Package system totaly a complete mess

2014-06-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 June 2014 21:41:17 Slavko wrote: apt-get is quicker than aptitude and has (by the release note) The release notes have not been consistent about which they recommend for a particular upgrade. Both have been recommended on occasion. I prefer aptitude because I know what I am