micah debian.org(Micah Anderson) 14.06.06 11:56
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>reassign 372795 aptitude
>thanks
>Hi,
>Your system seems confused.
Plural! ;-)
All my systems are confused ;-)
(Because all have links to stable and testing both, i assume)
>I am reassigning this bug to aptitude,
Thanks.
>I might recommend, for further troubleshooting, that you see if
>apt-cache policy <package> gives the correct answers.
Yes.
aptitude show
only shows the latest available version,
indicating being the "installed"
while
aptitude -v show
shows all available, giving the missleading
impression that *both* versions are installed...
~#
~# apt-cache policy aptitude
aptitude:
Installed: 0.2.15.9-2
Candidate: 0.2.15.9-2
Version Table:
0.4.1-1.1 0
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
*** 0.2.15.9-2 0
990 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Packages
990 ftp://ftp.debian.org sarge/main Packages
990 ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Packages
990 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
~# apt-cache policy backupninja
backupninja:
Installed: 0.5-3sarge1
Candidate: 0.5-3sarge1
Version Table:
0.9.3-6 0
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
*** 0.5-3sarge1 0
990 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
990 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Packages
990 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages
990 ftp://ftp.debian.org sarge/main Packages
990 ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Packages
990 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
~# aptitude show backupninja
Package: backupninja
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.9.3-6
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Micah Anderson <micah riseup.net>
Uncompressed Size: 406k
Depends: gawk | mawk, dialog, bash (>= 2.05b-26)
Suggests: rdiff-backup, duplicity, hwinfo, mkisofs, cdrecord, dvd+rw-tools
Description: lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
Backupninja lets you drop simple config files in /etc/backup.d to coordinate
system
backups. Backupninja is a master of many arts, including incremental remote
filesystem
backup, mysql backup, and ldap backup. By creating simple drop-in handler
scripts,
backupninja can learn new skills. Backupninja is a silent flower blossom death
strike to
lost data.
In addition to backing up regular files, Backupninja has handlers to ease
backing up:
ldap, maildir, mysql, svn, trac, and the output from shell scripts
Backupninja currently supports common backup utilities, easing their
configuration,
currently supported are: rdiff-backup, duplicity, CD/DVD
~#
~#
~# aptitude -v show backupninja
Package: backupninja
*State: installed*
Automatically installed: no
*Version: 0.9.3-6*
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Micah Anderson <micah riseup.net>
Uncompressed Size: 406k
Architecture: all
Compressed Size: 70.4k
Filename: pool/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.9.3-6_all.deb
MD5sum: 4eb85026034f97c20cbf9f3b8a2ff310
Archive: unstable
Depends: gawk | mawk, dialog, bash (>= 2.05b-26)
Suggests: rdiff-backup, duplicity, hwinfo, mkisofs, cdrecord, dvd+rw-tools
Description: lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
Backupninja lets you drop simple config files in /etc/backup.d to coordinate
system
backups. Backupninja is a master of many arts, including incremental remote
filesystem
backup, mysql backup, and ldap backup. By creating simple drop-in handler
scripts,
backupninja can learn new skills. Backupninja is a silent flower blossom death
strike to
lost data.
In addition to backing up regular files, Backupninja has handlers to ease
backing up:
ldap, maildir, mysql, svn, trac, and the output from shell scripts
Backupninja currently supports common backup utilities, easing their
configuration,
currently supported are: rdiff-backup, duplicity, CD/DVD
Package: backupninja
*State: installed*
Automatically installed: no
*Version: 0.5-3sarge1*
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Micah Anderson <micah riseup.net>
Uncompressed Size: 131k
Architecture: all
Compressed Size: 30.6k
Filename: pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1_all.deb
MD5sum: 68b2d618fead50ee4f9a17ba818504d4
Archive: stable, stable, stable, stable, stable, stable, now
Depends: gawk | mawk
Suggests: rdiff-backup, hwinfo
Description: lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
Backupninja lets you drop simple config files in /etc/backup.d to coordinate
system
backups. Backupninja is a master of many arts, including incremental remote
filesystem
backup, mysql backup, and ldap backup. By creating simple drop-in handler
scripts,
backupninja can learn new skills. Backupninja is a silent flower blossom death
strike to
lost data.
>Also, it helps the person who has to handle your bug if you do not cut
>information from the output of your commands.
The output below was not "cut" in anyway.
(See the misstyped "dkpg" leading to "command not found")
>micah
>Rainer Zocholl wrote:
>> Package: aptitude
>> State: installed
>> Version: 0.2.15.9-2
>> Priority: important
>>
>>
>> Hello
>>
>>
>> "aptitude show" says
>> Package: aptitude
>> State: installed
>> Version: 0.4.1-1.1
>>
>> but installed is actually 0.2.15.9-2!
>>
>> The info aptitude delivers are missleading wrong
>> when the "installed" does not belong to the shown version number.
>> There is no hint that the 0.4.1-1.1 belongs to "testing".
>>
>> Too aptitude accepts "-t <>" but ignores it without warning or
>> error. An ignored because "unkown" parameter should give at least a
>> warning IMHO.
>>
>>
>>
>> example with backupninja but other packages aptitude shows
>> an unrelated version number too, for example
>>
>>
>>
>> ~# aptitude show aptitude
>> Package: aptitude
>> State: installed
>> Automatically installed: no
>> Version: 0.4.1-1.1
>> Priority: important
>> Section: admin
>> Maintainer: Daniel Burrows <dburrows debian.org>
>> Uncompressed Size: 7361k
>> Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgcc1 (>=
>> 1:4.1.0), libncursesw5
>> (>= 5.4-5), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2), libstdc++6 (>=
>> 4.1.0)
>> Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc
>> Suggests: libparse-debianchangelog-perl, tasksel, debtags
>> Description: terminal-based apt frontend
>> aptitude is a terminal-based apt frontend with a number of useful
>> features,
>> including: a
>> mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner,
>> dselect-like
>> persistence of
>> user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian
>> changelog of
>> most packages,
>> and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
>>
>> aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing,
>> and
>> housebroken.
>>
>> ~# apt-cache show aptitude
>> Package: aptitude
>> Priority: important
>> Section: admin
>> Installed-Size: 7188
>> Maintainer: Daniel Burrows <dburrows debian.org>
>> Architecture: i386
>> Version: 0.4.1-1.1
>> Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgcc1 (>=
>> 1:4.1.0), libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2),
>> libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0) Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc
>> Suggests: libparse-debianchangelog-perl, tasksel, debtags
>> Filename: pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.4.1-1.1_i386.deb
>> Size: 2605972
>> MD5sum: 4c5ae737f68d5169fd451d9c3c5ea436
>> Description: terminal-based apt frontend
>> aptitude is a terminal-based apt frontend with a number of useful
>> features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a
>> flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the
>> ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most
>> packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
>> .
>> aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing,
>> and housebroken.
>> Tag: admin::configuring, admin::package-management,
>> interface::text-mode, made-of::lang:c++, role::sw:application,
>> suite::debian, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::browsing, use::configuring,
>> works-with::software:package
>>
>> Package: aptitude
>> Priority: optional
>> Section: admin
>> Installed-Size: 5624
>> Maintainer: Daniel Burrows <dburrows debian.org>
>> Architecture: i386
>> Version: 0.2.15.9-2
>> Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgcc1
>> (>= 1:3.4.1-3), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libsigc++-1.2-5c102,
>> libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1)
>> Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc
>> Filename: pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.2.15.9-2_i386.deb
>> Size: 1844160
>> MD5sum: 98106b573bd1f4a23a4423dd5d6edd47
>> Description: terminal-based apt frontend
>> aptitude is a terminal-based apt frontend with a number of useful
>> features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a
>> flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the
>> ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most
>> packages, and extreme flexibility and customization.
>> .
>> aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing,
>> and housebroken.
>>
>> ~# dkpg -l aptitude
>> -bash: dkpg: command not found
>> ~# dpkg -l aptitude
>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-inst
>> alled |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
>> (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>> ||/ Name Version Description
>> +++-================-================-==============================
>> ========= =========
>> ii aptitude 0.2.15.9-2 terminal-based apt frontend
>>
>>
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