Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.8-1 Severity: wishlist Here's the scenario where I want aptitude to serve me better:
1. I run a dist-upgrade, chugging away
2. I discover that I want to install something
3. I run aptitude again while the dist-upgrade is running
4. Aptitude fails to acquire the lock and terminates
Here's the alternate step 4:
4. Aptitude polls the lock until it acquires it, then proceeds.
That way, aptitude is fire-and-forget instead of requiring babysitting :)
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.8 compiled at Jul 4 2008 16:43:39
Compiler: g++ 4.3.1
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20080804
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f92000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7eb8000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e7a000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e73000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7daf000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7cee000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b98000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b83000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b6a000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a7b000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a55000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a48000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78ed000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78e9000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78e4000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f93000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (550, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.14+b1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-1 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080804-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.7-3 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.11.8-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.7 Enables support for package tags
pn tasksel <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Jonas Kölker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://jonaskoelker.ignorelist.com>
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