El vie, 28-12-2007 a las 16:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty escribió: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > > Aptitude users's manual explains the reinstall men?? command as follows: > > > > > Reinstalls the package. > > > > > > Note that the reinstallation will not be saved when you quit aptitude or > > > perform an install run for technical reasons. (essentially, the > > > underlying > > > software layers (dpkg and apt) do not provide any way to find out whether > > > a reinstallation was successful or not). > > > > I'm not sure what does it mean with "will not be saved when you...". Is > > it that there will be no way to know that the package was reinstalled or > > that the action will be executed immediately and not when I press g? Or > > maybe something else. > > It means what it says. Aptitude keeps track of a package's state: > installed, not-installed, installed-but-not-configured. It contains no > state "reinstalled". So, you tell aptitude to reinstall a package. It > fetches the .deb and tells dpkg to install it. When dpkg returns, it > either returns successful or not, but aptitude has no way to record a > correct reinstall. You should watch the screen. > > It is for this reason that I consider a reinstall and a > deinstall-install cycle as not the same thing. The latter will be > tracked by aptitude. > > Aptitude will never do anything before you hit 'g'. >
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