Hi, On 2016-05-04 20:20:59 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2006-11-09 01:33 Vincent Lefevre: > > One may want to mark deleted packages as purge to get rid of obsolete > > configuration files. But some configuration files may be common to a > > package to be purged and a package to installed (this is the case when > > a package is renamed). To avoid losing the contents of these files > > (when the user has modified them), the actual purge should occur after > > installing all the packages. > > aptitude passes the information from a high-level point of view from > (lib)apt to dpkg, and they decide what to do between them depending on > complex sets of rules of who-depends-on-what. > > aptitude doesn't intervine directly in that process, so it cannot do > much, sorry. Closing as +wontfix. > > I think that the cases that you mention has to be handled specially by > the package being renamed, to preserve the information from before. If > old and new packages share config files, probably this is handled > specially by dpkg.
You mean something like a dpkg transaction? Wouldn't this be a bug in dpkg, then? (But this bug was old, so that it may now be obsolete.) -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
