On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Ah -- the "things" in --force-things is a syntactic metavariable[1] :-)
Actually, I tried
aptitude --force-things confold safe-upgrade
aptitude --force-things=confold safe-upgrade
aptitude --force-confold safe-upgrade
and all gave the same "aptitude: unrecognized option"
but gave me the opportunity to discover the "Super Cow Powers" and
all the "aptitude -v moo" gags (.
What was missing was the -o flag. With it, both works:
aptitude -o --force-things=confold safe-upgrade
and
aptitude -o --force-confold safe-upgrade
best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel
