Hi, I have a weird problem where my google foo is failing me (although I guess it has been seen more than once before).
Long story short, I have a configuration management software (puppet) that purges selective packages on each run (among others os-prober). It is (by default) using apt for this task. When I execute aptitude interactively on one of those handled servers after that, it always wants to reinstall os-prober. It does not show so in the listing, but it says 'Will use 193 kB of disk space' and shows os-prober in the 'Packages to be installed' block after pressing 'g'. I have to deselect it there manually with '-' or ':' to get rid of it forever. It seems to be related with the Apt::Install-Recommends setting, if I set that to False the behaviour is gone. But I like recommends for now. It is easily reproducible on both Squeeze and Wheezy: # apt-get install os-prober # aptitude (see that there is nothing to do) # apt-get purge os-prober # aptitude (see that it wants to install os-prober) I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or works-as-designed? Thanks, Bernhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
