Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-15 Thread Josh Triplett
Norbert Preining wrote: In the current transition to gnome3 (or it seems) I press U to update all packages, and then it suggests me to remove 30 or so packages. I know this game, normally I have to press . a few times to come to the solution that simply keeps some of the packages

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-15 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sa, 15 Okt 2011, Josh Triplett wrote: quickly by using the reject and approve mechanism. When you view Thanks for that hint, yes, that works actually much better. No I only have to remember it ;-) Best wishes Norbert

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Miles Bader
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? Not AFAICT, I only read the documentation rather than the code though. Kinda surprising, actually; this has long been the #1 most horrible thing about aptitude, and one about which there's been plenty of

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Miles Bader wrote: [With the normal U command, for my typical usage, aptitude seems to choose the worst possible solution about 98% of the time.] Agreed on that. What is the most typical scenario sid people are hitting, transitions in progress, and that is solved by keeping

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
how can I teach aptitude to not be sooo incredible stupid? In the current transition to gnome3 (or it seems) I press Maybe experimental (where gnome3 currently resides) has the wrong priority set in /etc/apt/preferences? Mine looks like this and I regularly upgrade (through apt-get, though)

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Marvin Renich
* Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org [111014 03:04]: Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? Not AFAICT, I only read the documentation rather than the code though. Kinda surprising, actually; this has long been the #1 most horrible thing about

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Jarek Kamiński
Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: Is there such an option? And if not, can we please please have one? aptitude safe-upgrade has been around for years. Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? You can use aptitude --safe-resolver. -- pozdr(); // Jarek -- To

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: priority set in /etc/apt/preferences? Mine looks like this and I Good point. Strange enough I have a *very* strange /etc/apt/preferences file that I don't remember to have *EVER* created: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable-i386 Pin-Priority: 400

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Jarek Kamiński wrote: Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? You can use aptitude --safe-resolver. Didn't work either ... still not getting the best result. I still get 6 removals, 1 keep instead of n keeps, and after 30 or so proposals all removing loas

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Marvin Renich wrote: You can use aptitude safe-upgrade --visual-preview, though this is not particularly convenient when already running the aptitude cua. That was very useful, and actually works. Great. You can also check out Aptitude::Always-Use-Safe-Resolver. I assume

aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, esp aptitude masters, how can I teach aptitude to not be sooo incredible stupid? In the current transition to gnome3 (or it seems) I press U to update all packages, and then it suggests me to remove 30 or so packages. I know this game, normally I have to press . a few times

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: Is there such an option? And if not, can we please please have one? aptitude safe-upgrade has been around for years. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Paul, On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Paul Wise wrote: Is there such an option? And if not, can we please please have one? aptitude safe-upgrade has been around for years. Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? Best wishes Norbert

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? Not AFAICT, I only read the documentation rather than the code though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to