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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Using debfoster, I have some packages like strace or tcpdump marked in
a way that the packages are uninstalled whenever debfoster is invoked.
This is a very handy way to get rid of packages that tend to get
installed on productive systems for debugging while nobody bothers to
remove them afterwards.
debfoster is going to be removed from Debian, losing this
functionality. Please consider implementing persistent package states,
which survive manual package state changes. That way, I'd like to have
tcpdump maked as "to be uninstalled" even if it just was manually
installed.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.14-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.43.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-2 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.1-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
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tags 366520 - moreinfo
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2015-12-19 13:49 To Marc Haber:
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Hi Marc,
2006-05-09 12:58 Marc Haber:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Using debfoster, I have some packages like strace or tcpdump marked in
a way that the packages are uninstalled whenever debfoster is invoked.
This is a very handy way to get rid of packages that tend to get
installed on productive systems for debugging while nobody bothers to
remove them afterwards.
debfoster is going to be removed from Debian, losing this
functionality.
It doesn't seem that debfoster was removed after a few years, btw.
Please consider implementing persistent package states,
which survive manual package state changes. That way, I'd like to have
tcpdump maked as "to be uninstalled" even if it just was manually
installed.
I don't know if this was possible back in 2006, but nowadays and for
many years one can mark packages to remove/purge, and then quit
aptitude, and the state will be saved / "scheduled" -- it persists, as
requested here.
The next time that one starts aptitude, it will be marked in the same
way, and some actions in the command line will have scheduled actions
into account.
In addition, there's this:
2012-12-08 05:31 Daniel Hartwig:
User tags can do this:
# aptitude add-user-tag keep-uninstalled strace tcpdump
# aptitude install strace
[… do stuff …]
# aptitude remove '?user-tag(keep-uninstalled)'
I think that these two ways already cover what it was requested, in
different and complementary ways, so I don't know if there's much left
to do for this bug report.
aptitude can sorta achieve this in two different ways as explained, so
closing the bug report now.
Cheers.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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