reassign 250120 aptitude,apt thanks On Thu, 20 May 2004, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:56:39PM +0200, Daniel Skarda > <[email protected]> was heard to say: > > Due to disk failure I had to reinstall many packages. I marked packages > > with 'r' > > and start reinstallation. There were some errors during reinstallation, so > > apt > > reinstalled some packages successfully, some of packages are not configured > > and > > some are not unpacked at all. > > > > The problem is that now, after I returned back to aptitude screen, I can > > not > > distinguish between reinstalled packages and not yet processed packages, > > because > > aptitude clears 'r' flags from all packages (which is quite frustrating, > > since > > there were _many_ packages to reinstalll). > > See #167236, #121346. It's impossible to tell whether a > reinstallation succeeded, both permanent reinstalls and impermanent > reinstalls will cause problems sometimes, and permanent reinstalls > seem to generally be much more annoying. > > Someday, when dpkg can tell apt that a particular package installation > succeeded and apt uses the information, this bug can be closed.
I think you have all that is needed with --status-fd, no? Maybe libapt doesn't offer enough return information to make this possible but then it's a bug against apt and not dpkg. Thus reassigning the bug to apt and aptitude. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
