This is good! I find apt-get to be more versatile and understandable in the gnome environment... now the KDE environment is a totally different animal and that is where Aptitude is better suited.
Not to introduce "BLOAT" but maybe testing for which window manager is in play might be a thing to put on the "explore in the future" list. Here is another item I just noticed... When getting all the packages on slow or intermittent connections (mine is a 1.25 Mb/s that usually runs about 1000 b/s) some packages are not gotten due to time-out errors or connectivity conflicts yet the script keeps going even in the face of "Err" messages. I know more "BLOAT" factor. So is the update at the same URL?.?.?. Yes it is... as this develops maybe a version-ing system should be brought into the mix??? Dave - KB3EFS On 01/04/2011 03:33 PM, Peter Gamache/KC0TFB wrote: > Noted. I've switched the script to use apt-get for now, since it's the > "standard" way to do things in Ubuntu. > > I was unaware that the package databases were not synchronized. That's > not made clear but after a little Googling, it looks like this problem has > bitten others as well. Apparently the magic incantation needed is > "aptitude keep-all", but I'm not willing to put that in the script, since > it would tamper with the package database in ways most users wouldn't > expect. Safer just to use apt-get, I think... > > Regards, > -PG > > David A Aitcheson wrote: >> Peter, >> >> On additional observation I see one big difference... >> >> You are using "Aptitude" where I use "apt-get" exclusively. >> >> They use separate package management databases that until recently could >> not be synced with each other. >> >> That is why the major attempted delete was attempted by the script; also >> anything that happens in a script is not logged, thus the lack of items >> in the log. >> >> Dave > > > -- David A Aitcheson [email protected] david.aitcheson on google and skype _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
