-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >Ah -- the "things" in --force-things is a syntactic metavariable[1] :-) > > Actually, I tried > aptitude --force-things confold safe-upgrade > aptitude --force-things=confold safe-upgrade > aptitude --force-confold safe-upgrade > > and all gave the same "aptitude: unrecognized option" > but gave me the opportunity to discover the "Super Cow Powers" and > all the "aptitude -v moo" gags (. > > What was missing was the -o flag. With it, both works: > > aptitude -o --force-things=confold safe-upgrade > and > aptitude -o --force-confold safe-upgrade
Oh, I see. Now I learnt something new, thanks! regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlcCYZUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kajrgCfQcpWpFnoCo2bbcsltJNrohzT omoAn1s+SBx+CqqUjvUhXRyaemSja5Mo =zHcY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
