Hi Patrick, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > I am using 'aptitude keep-all', since apt-get does not support that.
Yes, apt-get doesn't have the concept of scheduled actions, so it has no need for a keep-all command. > In a situation without networking (... script automation), 'aptitude > keep-all' runs without networking and runs forever without timeout. I'm sorry, but I can't reproduce this. > Also package list updating isn't required at that point. "aptitude keep-all" does not update the package list. > Is it possible to have 'aptitude keep-all' run without trying to do any > networking? That's what it does and I can't see a reason at all, why it should require network access. There's also no option like "Run 'aptitude update' before doing anything else. Since you're Cc'ing [email protected] I'm assuming that you're having that issue on whonix. Any chance that aptitude there is a wrapper script which calls "aptitude update" first? (It sounds rather unrealistic as I can't imagine a reason why anyone would do that, but it's the only idea I have to explain your issue.) > I just want aptitude to set all packages currently listed > for auto removal to manually installed so they're kept. I won't work that way. You first need to mark them with "unmarkauto" otherwise the (default) setting "Remove unused packages automatically" (Aptitude::Delete-Unused) kicks in immediately after "keep-all" has been executed. So what you want is this command: aptitude unmarkauto '~M ~aremove'; aptitude keep-all This marks all packages which are scheduled for auto-removal as manually installed and afterwards the keep-all reverts the scheduled removal. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
