Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.5-3 Severity: wishlist Aptitude has a neat feature that I am not sure is documented on the man page:
In the case that some of the packages cannot be retrieved, a second run of aptitude will install the ones that can! e.g., offline, with half the needed packages for a safe-upgrade already in /var/cache/apt/archives, a first run of # aptitude safe-upgrade will get 42 packages upgraded, 27 newly installed, 12 to remove and 40 not upgraded. Need to get 16.6 MB/33.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 5,960 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] E: Failed to fetch http://free....i386.deb: Temporary failure resolving 'free.nchc.org.tw' E: Unable to correct for unavailable packages Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 82 (+0) upgradable, 50004 (+0) new. But a second identical run of # aptitude safe-upgrade will install the ones available, (and then at the end mention E: Failed to fetch http://free....i386.deb: Temporary failure resolving 'free.nchc.org.tw' Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 51 (-31) upgradable, 50004 (+0) new. ) So perhaps on the man page mention that a second identical run of e.g., safe-upgrade, full-upgrade, will proceed to install available packages that a first run couldn't. And the "E: Unable to correct for unavailable packages" isn't then entirely true, and should be changed to also mention "Try running me again...".
