Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-1 Severity: wishlist
Hi. I am working on a script to download packages including their recommendations for a friend who does not have access to the internet. Unfortunately aptitude exits if any of the specified packages doesn't exist any more on the mirrors. A switch for bypassing this behavior would be really great. Ignoring this package(s) won't affect the system because aptitude is just downloading these packages, not installing them. E.g.: $ aptitude download xutils xfonts-base-transcoded xdialog Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done E: No downloadable files for xfonts-base-transcoded version 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6; perhaps it is a local or obsolete package? -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.2 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3. 0.6.46.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-20 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-20 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
