Package: aptitude-common Version: 0.8.13-5 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
This was executed when connected to a good high-speed Internet connection: $ aptitude upgrade -D That fetched all pkgs without installing them. Then a week later when on a capped Internet connection, aptitude was executed with no arguments to launch the TUI. This was done because the CLI gives no way to selectively exclude a package from the upgrade for an operation for just one execution. The TUI makes it possible to exclude a package on a one-off basis. These steps were followed: $ aptitude Entered “+” on the “Upgradeable” line Expanded the tree and highlighted a pkg to exclude from the upgrade Entered “:” to unmark a pkg Entered “u” on the “Upgradeable” line It proceeded to download /everything/. Internet credit was getting sucked dry. Why? I had to quickly kill the operation. Then I ran this: $ aptitude upgrade --simulate The output printed: “Need to get 1,979 kB/567 MB of archives,” That means only a small amount needs to fetched. Just two megs, likely a new prospective upgrade was detected the 1 week lag between the download. But the TUI was re-downloading all 567mb. The aptitude TUI and CLI should be storing the data in the same location. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled aptitude-common depends on no packages. Versions of packages aptitude-common recommends: ii aptitude 0.8.13-5 aptitude-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
