[Aptitude-devel] Bug#825898: apt-get upgrade gets much farther than aptitude thanks to APT::Get::Fix-Missing

2016-05-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: wishlist apt-get upgrade, when using APT::Get::Fix-Missing true; gets a lot more installed that aptitude safe-upgrade aptitude usually gives up when any more than a few of the downloads fail, (e.g., when one is offline.) 164 packages upgraded, 8 newly

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#825901: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2016-05-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: wishlist 98 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 4 to remove and 13 not upgraded. E: Can't find a source to download version '8:6.8.9.9-7+b1' of 'imagemagick:i386' After unpacking 30.5 MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] E: Can't find

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#825901: infinite loop

2016-05-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
P.S., doing aptitude install imagemagick causes the infinite loop as seen in 825897. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#825901: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2016-06-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo > writes: MAFM> Do you have any more info to know why 8:6.8.9.9-7+b1 instead of +b2 is MAFM> chosen? What's the current status of imagemagick? (e.g. half MAFM> configured or something?). All I know is the newer one makes a lot of dangling symli

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#497137: closed by "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" (Re: "download" command ignores cache and directly goes to HTTP!)

2016-06-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
B> aptitude is going to use apt command direcly for this, so any problem of B> the implementation to be submitted there (I was told that there's a bug B> number about this, but couldn't find it after a few minutes searching). OK. Maybe download really means download. Well I just report things that

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#825901: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2016-06-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
MAFM> What does "dpkg --status imagemagick" say? In the end I completely purged all the imagemagick stuff and then reinstalled fresh. Now everything is normal. Otherwise just by upgrading I saw nightmares like "/etc/etc/" directories, etc. ___ Aptitude

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#832907: n and . same?

2016-07-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.2-1 Severity: wishlist It seems n: reject the proposed changes and search for another solution .: move to the next solution actually are the same, and thus should be thus labeled. By the way, maybe allow ,, ,,, .. ... etc. to move to the 2nd, 3rd etc. solution..

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833423: aptitude says packages are broken just because we didn't upgrade to our target (experimental)?

2016-08-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.2-1 File: /usr/bin/aptitude-curses The following results in "iB" installed BROKEN state, # aptitude install perl ... Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version:

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#832907: n and . same?

2016-08-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK one day I will try "r" and "a". ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833423: aptitude says packages are broken just because we didn't upgrade to our target (experimental)?

2016-08-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo > writes: MAFM> Do you still have the system in that state? What does "why" say for MAFM> those packages? # aptitude why perl-doc |wc 8963 39931 531886 w.gz Description: application/gzip ___ Ap

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833423: Bug#833423: aptitude says packages are broken just because we didn't upgrade to our target (experimental)?

2016-08-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "AB" == Axel Beckert writes: AB> If so, please save that state with aptitude-create-state-bundle, AB> upload the file (around 100 MB) somewhere and post the link here. That would take long on my 2MB/64K connection. Have this script instead f.gz Description: application/gzip ___

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833423: Bug#833423: aptitude says packages are broken just because we didn't upgrade to our target (experimental)?

2016-08-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
AB> If so, please save that state with aptitude-create-state-bundle, AB> upload the file (around 100 MB) somewhere and post the link here. Even though it turns out to be only 37MB, but its contents are overkill for the problem at hand. ___ Aptitude-deve

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834967: say -t is different than /

2016-08-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz At -t , --target-release Set the release from which packages should be installed. For instance, "aptitude -t experimental ..." will install packages from

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#836522: don't not show non-existent file names

2016-09-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: wishlist Can you please not show non-existent file names, Preparing to unpack .../09-locales_2.24-1_all.deb ... Unpacking locales (2.24-1) over (2.24-0experimental1) ... Preparing to unpack .../10-apt-doc_1.3~rc3_all.deb ... Unpacking apt-doc (1.3~rc3)

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#840902: install debtags; purge debtags leaves behind residue

2016-10-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 Severity: wishlist # aptitude install debtags # aptitude purge debtags #but that leaves behind junk, so must then do: # aptitude purge python3-debian python3-six python3-chardet python3-pkg-resources python3-apt using #cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10jidanni APT::D

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841875: better message for build-dep error

2016-10-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/aptitude-curses Please use a message like apt-get does. # aptitude build-dep linux Unable to find the source package for "linux" Unable to apply some actions, aborting # apt-get build-dep linux Reading package lists... Done E:

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#842219: mention how to clean up if one doesn't need those build-depends anymore

2016-10-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz We read build-depends, build-dep Satisfy the build-dependencies of a package. Each package name may be a source package, in which case the build dependencies of tha

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#842221: W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 'linux_4.8.4-1~exp1.dsc' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

2016-10-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 # aptitude source linux Executing 'apt source linux' Reading package lists... Done Selected version '4.8.4-1~exp1' (experimental) for linux NOTICE: 'linux' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/kernel/l

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#842229: dpkg: warning: found unknown packages

2016-10-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 # aptitude purge $@ The following packages will be REMOVED: asciidoc{p} automake{p} bison{p} cpp-5{pu} (D: gcc-5) dh-systemd{p} diffstat{pu} (D: quilt) docutils-common{pu} (D: python-docutils) fonts-font-awesome{pu} (D: sphinx-rtd-theme-common) fon

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#842430: /var/cache/apt/archives/\*

2016-10-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 Severity: wishlist I notice file '/var/cache/apt/archives/*' on all my machine. $ stat /var/cache/apt/archives/\* File: '/var/cache/apt/archives/*' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file Device: 812h/2066d Inode:

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#851908: Obsolete only removed not purged

2017-01-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.4-1 Severity: minor Alas, even though one uses Aptitude::Purge-Unused true; there still needs to be a Aptitude::Purge-Obsolete or something, to get rid of this too. # aptitude search ~o i android-tools-adb - Android Debug Bridge CLI

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852212: installing and then purging sometimes leaves behind cruft

2017-01-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.4-1 # aptitude install tlp also installs hdparm, but then # aptitude purge tlp does not remove it. It does remove the rest though, thankfully. The following NEW packages will be installed: hdparm{a} (D: tlp, R: pm-utils) (tlp D: hdparm) iw{a} (D: tlp) (tlp D: iw)

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852265: Add a SEE ALSO to deborphan(1)

2017-01-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.4-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz Add a SEE ALSO to deborphan(1). Very appropriate. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852266: also mention APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant

2017-01-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude-doc-en Version: 0.8.4-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s02s06.html https://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s02s06.html mentions APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant but should also mention APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant . _

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852212: Bug#852212: installing and then purging sometimes leaves behind cruft

2017-01-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
It turns out all one needs is APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant false; ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852271: aptitude --without-recommends documentation correction

2017-01-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.4-1 File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz The man page needs to be changed to say -R, --without-recommends Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf a

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852272: #configApt-AutoRemove-SuggestsImportant should mention APT::Install-Suggests

2017-01-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude-doc-en Version: 0.8.4-1 https://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s05.html#configApt-AutoRemove-SuggestsImportant needs to mention APT::Install-Suggests just like https://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s05.html#configApt-AutoRemove-RecommendsImportant already men

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852272: where is --install-suggests ?

2017-01-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
In fact nowhere in the documentation do you mention APT::Install-Suggests . $ find /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en -name \*.html|xargs grep APT::Install-Suggests $ But you instead only mention its antidote, APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant . $ find /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en -name \*.htm

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852212: Bug#852212: installing and then purging sometimes leaves behind cruft

2017-01-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK thanks. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#269097: not a word about it in the docs

2017-01-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ find /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en -name \*html|xargs grep -Pi \\bur[il]s|wc -l 0 One would think a program that would fetch things at least would also have a way to tell what it wants to fetch. I suppose one must use Man in the Middle techniques to pry this information. Or set up a phony p

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852271: aptitude --without-recommends documentation correction

2017-01-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
That my new version looks like an older version is just a coincidence. I want you to change it to say >> The man page needs to be changed to say >> >> -R, --without-recommends >> Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new >> packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.c

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852266: also mention APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant

2017-01-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
MAFM> APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant is not appropriate in this MAFM> explanation, unless one wants to be exhaustive and list all of the MAFM> possible situations in which the autoremoval is considered, which is not You do. You say "More precisely": "More precisely: they will be removed when

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#855425: Purge-Unused does not act for Breaks

2017-02-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.5-1 Severity: minor Despite APT::Default-Release "experimental"; APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant false; APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant false; APT::Cache::AllVersions false; APT::Clean-Installed false; APT::Get::Fix-Missing true; APT::Get::List-Cleanup false;

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#855543: clarify configuration files on man page

2017-02-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.5-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz Man page says /etc/apt/apt.conf, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*, ~/.aptitude/config The configuration files for aptitude. ~/.aptitude/config overrides /etc/apt/apt.conf. See apt.

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#855425: replay

2017-02-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Here's a replay: # aptitude install adb The following NEW packages will be installed: adb{b} (B: android-tools-adb) android-libadb{a} (D: adb) (adb D: android-libadb) android-libbase{a} (D: adb, D: android-libadb) (adb D: android-libbase) android-libcutils{a} (D: adb, D: android-libadb) (a

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#866974: worrisome aptitude full-upgrade, aptitude install perl

2017-07-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
By the way, the program really should put a couple of newlines "I want to resolve dependencies, but no dependency resolver was created.The following packages will be upgraded:" ^HERE # aptitude install perl Accept this solut

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#867036: aptitude full-upgrade when apt fails asks wrong question

2017-07-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.8-1 X-Debbugs-Cc: 866...@bugs.debian.org Also in the case of Bug #866974 aptitude full-upgrade prompts with "Resolve these dependencies by hand? [N/+/-/_/:/?]" but except for the N nothing else works and the question is just repeated. "?" gets a list of commands bu

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#866974: found a way to break the logjam also affecting non-perl packages' aptitude safe-upgrade

2017-07-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK I finally found a way to move forward, # aptitude safe-upgrade ~U!perl 185 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 4 to remove and 22 not upgraded. Need to get 262 MB/283 MB of archives. After unpacking 51.8 MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Now at least 185 other innocent packa

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#867585: mention why there is no "unkeep"

2017-07-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.8-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz We read The difference between hold and keep is that hold will cause a package to be ignored by future safe-upgrade or full-upgrade commands, while keep merely canc

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#867635: mention --target-release will not work on packages already installed

2017-07-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.8-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz We read -t , --target-release Set the release from which packages should be installed. For instance, "aptitude -t experimental ..." will install packages f

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#867635: Bug#867635: mention --target-release will not work on packages already installed

2017-07-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK then at the bottom of -t , --target-release Set the release from which packages should be installed. For instance, "aptitude -t experimental ..." will install packages from the experimental distribution unless you specify otherwise. This wil

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#873274: add --with-suggests --without-suggests

2017-08-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.9-1 Severity: wishlist There is already --with-recommends --without-recommends Please add --with-suggests --without-suggests even if one can get the same affect via -o ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@li

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#873893: log --download-only

2017-08-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.8-1 Severity: wishlist /var/log/aptitude should also log --download-only events. Then we could send you bug reports on the --download-only option if later offline we discover that it didn't get all it needs. ___ Aptitude-

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#873893: what threw away downloads

2017-08-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
... also easier to tell if indeed the user threw away some of the downloads himself... ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#879709: cannot install unar

2017-10-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.9-1 Cannot install unar # aptitude install unar The following NEW packages will be installed: libgnustep-base1.24{ab} (D: gnustep-base-common) (unar D: libgnustep-base1.24) libobjc4{a} (D: libgnustep-base1.24, D: unar) (unar D: libobjc4) unar The following pack

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#879709: aptitude full-upgrade will ask to remove unar

2017-10-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
reopen 879709 reassign 879709 unar found 879709 1.10.1-2 thanks Dear unar maintainer, If one has a combined sid/experimental system, after doing # aptitude -t sid install unar any # aptitude full-upgrade will ask to remove unar. ___ Aptitude-devel maili

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#883080: Wrong version "already installed" when -t is used

2017-11-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-1 # set firefox # apt-cache policy $@ firefox: Installed: 58.0~b4-1 Candidate: 58.0~b4-1 Version table: *** 58.0~b4-1 990 990 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian experimental/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 57.0-1 500 50

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887421: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/gl/man8': Directory not empty

2018-01-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-4 Severity: minor Preparing to unpack .../04-aptitude_0.8.10-4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking aptitude (0.8.10-4) over (0.8.10-3) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/gl/man8': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old director

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887421: Bug#887421: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/gl/man8': Directory not empty

2018-01-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Users will still freak out if any errors are printed like this so maybe also print a one-time soothing message that will appear in the apt output. If there is no way to do that then that should be a bug in itself. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitud

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887624: new hardwired SetupAPTPartialDirectory foils non-root use

2018-01-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 There is something now hardwired into aptitude that no -o option can change that causes this to complain when run as a regular user. As you can see the user just wants to download some .debs including dependencies and is not interested in locking any files or u

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887624: $? still 0 despite error

2018-01-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Also there should be a way to make aptitude stop scripts running it on all errors. But as $0 is still 0 in this case that is impossible. $ set -e won't detect it! ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887639: $? still 0 despite error

2018-01-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 Perl has use warnings FATAL => 'all'; to halt and return non-zero to the shell upon anything unexpected. Alas, aptitude gives no way to halt a shell script upon its errors at least like the one in #887624. Some people would like a chance to fix ANY error and

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887624: Bug not seen on ubuntu

2018-01-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Not seen on ubuntu's $ aptitude --version aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Feb 17 2014 23:54:56 Compiler: g++ 4.8.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions:

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887732: non-root user sacrifices half of disk to download one little package

2018-01-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 With plenty of disk space, jidanni1@ps11007:/tmp$ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on none 131072 2976128096 3% /tmp our regular (non-root) user thinks "I'll use the power of aptitude to download a package and any

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887739: --simulate download now broken

2018-01-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 Severity: minor This used to work, but not anymore, $ aptitude --simulate download php7.1-imap Executing 'apt --simulate download php7.1-imap' E: Command line option --simulate is not understood in combination with the other options E: Failed to execute:

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887732: Bug#887732: non-root user sacrifices half of disk to download one little package

2018-01-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
AB> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Please mention that the difference between e.g., >> $ aptitude --download-only install php5-imap >> $ aptitude download php5-imap >> is the latter won't also get any dependencies. AB> With the last thing you've got a point.

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887739: Bug#887739: --simulate download now broken

2018-01-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
AB> So basically aptitude should just tell you that it would call 'apt AB> download php7.1-imap'? That would be fine. Just don't have it brake down with the wheels flying off all over the highway as it does currently. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Apt

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#891866: Please don't mix units within the same sentance

2018-03-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 Severity: wishlist Which are clearer? Need to get 3,159 kB/131 MB of archives. After unpacking 195 MB will be freed. Need to get 3.159/131 MB of archives. After unpacking 195 MB will be freed. Need to get 316 cents out of 131 dollars. Need to get 3.16/131 doll

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#892141: holds produce APT warnings

2018-03-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 Severity: wishlist If one holds chromium uh chromium - web browser then full-upgrades now produce W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (344 vs 348). Affected packages: chromium:amd64 Maybe intended?

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#743168: errors seen upon purging aptitude

2014-03-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.10-2 Severity: wishlist # aptitude purge aptitude # will create these error messages [ ERR] Initializing package states [ ERR] Initializing package states Current status: 0 new [-42409]. E: Could not open file /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.new - open (2: No such file

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#743355: many files opened two or three times... inefficient?

2014-04-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.10-2 Severity: wishlist Just out of curiosity, $ strace -e trace=open aptitude search iproute 2>&1|sed '/open/!d;s/ .*//;'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr shows many files opened two or three times. Maybe there is something inefficient going on. _

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#724887: Bug#724887: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed

2014-04-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
Well I finally managed to get rid of it! All I can say is that if apt had just tried good old dpkg -P ... So in this case we see that apt is probably trying a remove + purge instead of a plain purge or something. # aptitude purge ~c The following packages will be REMOVED: iproute{p} 0 package

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#724887: yes maybe it's the lack of :i386

2014-04-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ set iproute $ grep -A 1 Package:\ $1$ /var/lib/dpkg/status Package: iproute Status: deinstall ok config-files $ set libasan0 $ grep -A 1 $1$ /var/lib/dpkg/status Package: libasan0 Status: deinstall ok config-files # aptitude search ~c c iproute

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#756507: installing then purging leaves nine packages behind

2014-07-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 # set linux-headers-686-pae # aptitude install $@ #installs 10 packages # aptitude purge $@ #purges one package # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10jidanni APT::Default-Release "experimental";//just order them in sources.list UNTRUE APT::Cache::AllVersions false; APT::C

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#756510: "Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched" ... printed twice

2014-07-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: minor Doubled error line: # aptitude install BLAAA Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "BLAAA" Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "BLAAA" No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#756507: Bug#756507: installing then purging leaves nine packages behind

2014-07-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "AB" == Axel Beckert writes: AB> Please explicitly list these packages. # set linux-headers-686-pae # aptitude install $@ The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-4.8{a} (D: gcc-4.8) (for linux-headers-686-pae) gcc-4.8{a} (D: linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86, R: dpkg-dev, R: flex, R

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#758764: E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2014-08-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 # set libglib2.0-data # aptitude install $@ The following packages will be upgraded: libglib2.0-data 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 11.3 kB will be used. Do you want to co

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#758764: Bug#758764: E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2014-08-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
All I know is that I am a victim of bug 758760 . All I know is I just to aptitude safe-upgrade and must have swallowed something weird yesterday and can't get it out of my system today. grep -h imagemagick-doc /var/log/dpkg.log /var/log/aptitude |uniq 2014-08-13 11:44:15 upgrade imagemagick-doc:

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#759520: aptitude forbid-version should perhaps report an error if it is given no arguments

2014-08-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: wishlist aptitude forbid-version should perhaps report an error if it is given no arguments. Same with a few other of such commands. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org ht

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#759764: package residue left

2014-08-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 aptitude install paprefs; then aptitude purge paprefs leaves a lot of junk on my system. Start-Date: 2014-08-30 09:55:13 Install: pulseaudio-module-gconf:i386 (5.0-10, automatic), paprefs:i386 (0.9.10-1), libglademm-2.4-1c2a:i386 (2.6.7-2, automatic), avahi-d

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#764299: doing other jobs during forbid-version startles user

2014-10-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: wishlist Here we observe the user asks aptitude to do something and aptitude (seemingly instead) decides to do something unrelated: # aptitude forbid-version chromium The following packages will be REMOVED: libsrtp0{pu} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#764601: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/...Packages.IndexDiff - open (2: No such file or directory)

2014-10-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 # chown -R _apt:root /var/lib/apt/lists/ # aptitude update Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org experimental InRelease Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org unstable InRelease Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease Get: 1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198 B] Hit ht

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#764983: reportbug --template aptitude misses vital configuration details

2014-10-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 File: /usr/share/bug/aptitude reportbug --template aptitude misses vital configuration details. Here I am e.g., preparing a bug report about config files remaining: # set libapt-pkg4.13 # aptitude purge $@ The following packages will be REMOVED: libapt-pkg4.

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#764983: Bug#764983: reportbug --template aptitude misses vital configuration details

2014-10-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
I'm saying don't you think your bug script should at least capture the Aptitude:: config values in effect too? E.g., in my bug example there was a something probably affected by one of them, but I had to remember to append them by hand to the bug report! _

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#766122: thwarted due to missing partial/ directory that we aren't going to use anyway

2014-10-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: wishlist Here we see that we had all the archives we needed, but are thwarted anyway due to a missing partial/ directory that we aren't going to be using anyway. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 98.2 MB will be used. Do you want to continu

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#766128: In search, a hold covers up the fact that a package also has a ForbidVer

2014-10-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: wishlist No big deal, but in search, the hold covers up the fact that a package also has a ForbidVer. Maybe use big H in that case. Or always clear the ForbidVer upon establishing holds. # grep-status -PX initramfs-tools /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#766386: aptitude said it would configure packages but doesn't

2014-10-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: minor I ran this twice, but had to resort to dpkg --configure -a to get the job actually done. # aptitude purge The following partially installed packages will be configured: man-db sgml-base sgml-data No packages will be installed, upgraded, or r

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#766702: installing and then purging isc-dhcp-client leaves 5 packages of residue

2014-10-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: minor Here we see a quick install and then purge leaves five extra packages behind still on the system. # aptitude install isc-dhcp-client The following NEW packages will be installed: isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common{a} (D: isc-dhcp-client) (for is

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#770908: aptitude does not know about the new _apt user. Must use apt-get update as a workaround

2014-11-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: grave aptitude does not know about the new _apt user in e.g., apt 1.1~exp8. Any use of aptitude update will leave filesystem permissions in an inconsistent state. Please use apt-get update as a workaround. Symptoms look like: E: Could not open file

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#770908: Bug#770908: aptitude does not know about the new _apt user. Must use apt-get update as a workaround

2014-11-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "AB" == Axel Beckert writes: AB> Why should that be grave (in the current situation)? aptitude does not AB> work well with apt from experimental yet, yes, see #764506 and AB> #762846. But since it's apt from experimental, it's not AB> release-critical for Jessie. I was just thinking that th

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#773023: say how to just remove the forbidden notation but not install the package

2014-12-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz After This command is useful for avoiding broken versions of packages without having to set and clear manual holds. If you decide you really want the forbidden

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#779715: installs 30 but only removes 16

2015-03-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 # set vokoscreen # aptitude install $@ The following NEW packages will be installed: libaudio2{a} (D: libqtgui4, R: libaudio2) (for vokoscreen) libav-tools{a} (D: vokoscreen, R: youtube-dl) (for vokoscreen) libavdevice55{a} (D: libav-tools) (for vokoscr

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#779999: had to purge in two steps, despite settings

2015-03-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/aptitude-curses Had to purge in two steps, despite config settings to remove config files. # set libmozjs-17.0-0 # aptitude purge $@ The following packages will be REMOVED: libmozjs-17.0-0{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly inst

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#269276: aptitude: spurious arguments produce no error messages

2015-08-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
Good discovery. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#798286: "Package xxx is not installed, so it will not be removed" messages upon purge ~c

2015-09-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: minor Now there are these new warnings "Package xxx is not installed, so it will not be removed" messages upon purge ~c: # aptitude purge ~c Package libatkmm-1.6-1 is not installed, so it will not be removed Package libglademm-2.4-1c2a is not installe

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#798286: Bug#798286: "Package xxx is not installed, so it will not be removed" messages upon purge ~c

2015-09-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
You are confusing > dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed messages with > Package libatkmm-1.6-1 is not installed, so it will not be removed Two different bugs! ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.aliot

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#798286: Bug#798286: "Package xxx is not installed, so it will not be removed" messages upon purge ~c

2015-09-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
(Actually the only reason I often use aptitude purge ~c is due to Aptitude::Purge-Unused "true"; being ignored... but that is a different bug.) ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#734334: closed by "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" (Re: aptitude: unable to purge a package)

2015-09-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK, probably fixed already. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#798286: Double "Package xxx is not installed, so it will not be removed" messages upon purge ~c

2015-09-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
By the way, today 0.7.1-1 even made double messages! # aptitude purge ~c Package libkyotocabinet16 is not installed, so it will not be removed Package libkyotocabinet16 is not installed, so it will not be removed The following packages will be REMOVED: libkyotocabinet16{p} 0 packages upgraded,

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#588237: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
All I know is "No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used." is totally understandable by me, So all that needs to be done is have that mystery line of g

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#588237: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
MAFM> Current status: there are 287 updates available (4 added from last MAFM> run), 4629 newly available packages (3 less compared to last run), 3 MAFM> broken packages left (3 new from last run). I think I pretty much understand what that is finally saying, for what it's worth. By the way, th

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#724887: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed

2015-09-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
MAFM> It is fixed with apt-1.1 (still in experimental, I think), but it will OK I'll trust you. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#800017: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff - open (2: No such file or directory)

2015-09-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.2-1 # aptitude update Get: 1 http://ftp.tw.debian.org experimental InRelease [186 kB] Get: 2 http://ftp.tw.debian.org unstable InRelease [251 kB] Get: 3 http://ftp.tw.debian.org experimental/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex [7,819 B] Get: 4 http://ftp.tw.debian.org expe

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#800017: Bug#800017: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff - open (2: No such file or directory)

2015-09-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo > writes: MAFM> If you are indeed using apt-1.1... reportbug --template won't tell you that (a bug in itself!) -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#800017: Bug#800017: Bug#800017: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff - open (2: No such file or di

2015-09-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
I bet the problem has something to do with the residue left with the _apt owner stuff... # find /var/lib/apt/lists/partial -ls 49345 17 drwx-- 2 _apt root16384 Sep 25 18:52 /var/lib/apt/lists/partial 49381 18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root18409 Aug 15 09:21 /var/lib

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#758764: Bug#758764: E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2015-09-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo > writes: MAFM> So yes, I guess that it was some kind of action pending in MAFM> aptitude/apt/dpkg (or that they thought that it was pending). Maybe in that case it should print a message "please try aptitude update and then try this command agai

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#799918: aptitude vs. qgis

2015-09-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo > writes: MAFM> But I am confused about your previous message that "purge && install" MAFM> solved the situation -- did it, or not? Hmmm, you are right. I want qgis installed, but I also want # aptitude full-upgrade not to give me those messages.

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#799918: aptitude vs. qgis

2015-09-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
I'm not really sure where the problem lies. # set qgis # aptitude install $@ The following NEW packages will be installed: libgsl0ldbl{a} (D: qgis) (for qgis) qgis{b} (D: libgdal.so.1-1.11.2) The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: qgis-plugin-globe (R: qgis) 0 packa

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#799918: apt-get proves I am innocent

2015-09-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
# apt-get install qgis Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#799918: Bug#799918: apt-get proves I am innocent

2015-09-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
386_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 170891 09-30 16:48 ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_InRelease -rw-r--r-- 1 root root18539 09-29 04:41 ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_contrib_binary-i386_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root13922 08-15 05:01 ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_d

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