On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 07:42:55PM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 18/12/16 15:48, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 01:18:08AM +0100, info at smallinnovations.nl wrote: > >> On 18-12-16 00:59, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>> well, the suse complaint is gone now. > >>> > >>> aptitude still tries to install a huge set of unwanted packages. > >>> apt works just fine. > >>> > >>> Is there some aptitude-only status file that I could just delete so > >>> that aptitude has to recostruct it from apt-get's data? > >> > >> |aptitude --clean-on-startup > >> > >> According to the manpage should clean the cache. I only use apt so i did > >> not > >> test it.| > > > > That cleans out the cache. Which would be good if I had any > > packages from the suse that someone stuck into the > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. And I might ... and I might even > > have some of these installed ... > > > > But is there somewhere that aptitude remembers what packages it is > > *supposed* to install? That's probably what I need cleared. > > > > Could you run the original problematic aptitude command with the flags > --simulate --show-deps (read the man page) and share that so we can get > a view of what your seeing. > > Daniel.
Not what I expected. It appears update will update whether --simulate is specified or not, and will try to set the lock even in user more (unsuccessfully, of course). Is this a bug in aptitude or in the man page? I will repeat with aptitude upgrade. hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ aptitude --simulate --show-deps update E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ su Password: root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# aptitude --simulate --show-deps update Get: 1 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie InRelease [108 kB] Get: 2 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates InRelease [119 kB] Get: 3 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security InRelease [60.8 kB] Get: 4 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/main Sources [7,082 kB] Get: 5 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/non-free Sources [99.0 kB] Get: 6 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/contrib Sources [50.8 kB] Get: 7 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/main i386 Packages [6,795 kB] Get: 8 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/non-free i386 Packages [80.4 kB] Get: 9 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/contrib i386 Packages [49.5 kB] Get: 10 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/main Sources [174 kB] Get: 11 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/non-free Sources [32 B] Get: 12 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/contrib Sources [1,368 B] Get: 13 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/main i386 Packages [319 kB] Get: 14 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/non-free i386 Packages [32 B] Get: 15 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/contrib i386 Packages [2,308 B] Get: 16 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB] Get: 17 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B] Get: 18 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free Sources [920 B] Get: 19 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/main i386 Packages [16.3 kB] Get: 20 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/contrib i386 Packages [32 B] Get: 21 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free i386 Packages [516 B] Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/contrib Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/contrib Translation-en Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/main Translation-en Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/non-free Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/non-free Translation-en Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/contrib Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/contrib Translation-en Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/main Translation-en Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/non-free Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/non-free Translation-en Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free Translation-en_CA Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free Translation-en Fetched 15.0 MB in 38s (389 kB/s) root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# > > -- > Daniel Reurich > Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. > 021 797 722 > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
