Your message dated Sun, 6 Jan 2013 07:33:14 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#501949: want "full-upgrade" and "install" in one
command, like dselect-upgrade
has caused the Debian Bug report #501949,
regarding want "full-upgrade" and "install" in one command, like dselect-upgrade
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.10-1
Severity: wishlist
Problem: one needs to remember to do two commands,
# aptitude full-upgrade && aptitude install
to bring one's system to the desired state: all scheduled operations
done and upgradeable packages upgraded.
There should be a new single command, or a configuration setting to
make full-upgrade also do the functionality of "aptitude install".
Indeed, this is what apt-get's dselect-upgrade does.
Yes, the user could make a shell alias
alias aptitude-dselect-upgrade='aptitude full-upgrade && aptitude install'
but that is not elegant.
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Version: 0.6.3-3.2
Hi jidanni,
[email protected] wrote:
> Problem: one needs to remember to do two commands,
> # aptitude full-upgrade && aptitude install
> to bring one's system to the desired state: all scheduled operations
> done and upgradeable packages upgraded.
>
> There should be a new single command, or a configuration setting to
> make full-upgrade also do the functionality of "aptitude install".
You can do that already in a single command. There are even multiple
alternative commands which only differ slightly in some corner cases
(see http://bugs.debian.org/693144 for such a corner case):
# aptitude full-upgrade '~U !~ahold' somepackage+
# aptitude install '~U !~ahold' somepackage
(The quotes are crucial. If you don't have packages on hold, you can
also omit the "!~ahold" and in most cases also the quotes.)
We use the full-upgrade variant in aptitude-robot
(http://bugs.debian.org/690157) on Squeeze, so I'm sure this works in
Squeeze. Hence closing with the version in Squeeze -- despite I
suspect that this works with even older aptitude versions.
If you think there's still need for a special subcommand (i.e.
syntactic sugar) for this functionality, you can reopen this bug. I
though think there's not really need for that. At least
aptitude install ~U package
is shorter than
aptitude fuller-upgrade package
(c.f. http://bugs.debian.org/551673)
Regards, Axel
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