On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 11:19:52AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
Hello,
I use the following line (borrowed from apticron) in a script to generate
a list of upgradable packages:
PKGNAMES=`apt-get -q -y -s --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated dist-upgrade |
\
/bin/grep ^Inst | /usr/bin/cut -d\ -f2 | /usr/bin/sort`
Now I would like to do the same with aptitude, so the user may pick which
program they prefer to install the available updates.
The aptitude equivalent I have come up with so far is:
PKGNAMES=`aptitude -v -y -s --allow-untrusted full-upgrade | \
/bin/grep ^Inst | /usr/bin/cut -d\ -f2 | /usr/bin/sort`
aptitude is, generally speaking, a more user-friendly interface to the
apt system. If you're scripting (and especially as it already works),
you should stick with apt-get. apt-get's output tends to be more stable
and more readily parsable.
Is there some feature of aptitude that apt is missing? What's your
motivation for switching to aptitude here?
I figure that probably --allow-untrusted does the same for aptitude as
--allow-unauthenticated does for apt-get (?) , however from man aptitude I
cannot see anything like apt-get's --ignore-hold option.
So my question is: is there a way to include updates to packages put on
hold to the output of "aptitude full-upgrade" as in apt-get, that I have
been missing, or is this simply not possible?
Regards
Michael
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