clone 492863 -1 retitle -1 update-manager: does not install packages that 'apt-get dist-upgrade' would install reassign -1 update-manager block by -1 thanks
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 23:58 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > Looks like the culprit is the python script that update-notifier > launches to discover if there are updates available: > > $ /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check -p > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > xscreensaver > bse-alsa > xli > > Looking further, it seems that depcache.MarkedInstall returns true for > these packages. But I have never asked anything to install them, and I > don't know where apt would even keep track of this information. So, if I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', these packages get newly installed. So this is not a bug in update-notifier. It is actually a bug in update-manager (which is launched by update-notifier when the user selects 'install updates'). Thus I'm cloning the bug, and leaving the original blocked by the clone (so that others reporting this bug in update-notifier will see this message). Why do we have apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, update-notifier, update-manager and others, all implementing their own dependency tracking, pinning, recommends-handling and logic for picking which packages to install, anyway? -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
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