On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At the moment, I am forced to either set _all_ packages as > > automatically or manually installed when doing security upgrades. > > Ouch. "aptitude install blah" is clearing the manual flag? That's a > bug. Which packages are you seeing this on and in what circumstance? > (bearing in mind #446609, that "aptitude show" reverses the automatic > flag) No, aptitude install foo&M would do that (which is OK). What I mean is that I am forced to either set all packages to manually installed or set all packages to automatically installed during installation. It is not possible to tell aptitude 'in case this package is already installed, do not touch its manually/automatically installed flag and just install it', which is why I filed this wishlist item. To clarify what I want to do: 1) I have a system with a few hundred or thousand packages 2) There is a security vulnerability for both foo and bar 2.1) foo has been installed manually 2.2) bar has been installed automatically to satisfy a Depends 3) I want to install new versions of both foo and bar in one go 4) I want to be able to do this without needing to know wether foo or bar were installed manually or automatically. Neither do I want the flag for either of them to change after the installation. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
