Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andreas Beckmann] > Looks like we should start doing some automated upgrade tests with > aptitude ... jenkins.debian.net would be one solution, piuparts > another (anybody who wants to write a patch?). A few years ago I did chroot upgrade tests like the one done by jenkins.debian.net, using both

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > > Aptitude installs all recommended packages by default which was rather > > > annoying until I found that in the options menu as I ran out of space a > > > couple of times. > > > > as does apt-get. > > I'm fairly sure synaptic doesn't select recommended by default, however > the synapt

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 06:15:12PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2013-04-09 17:57, Osamu Aoki wrote: > [...] > >>> I'm not sure if it makes sense to recommend aptitude in its present state. > >> I wouldn't recommend it when operating with multiarch enabled. Otherwise > >> it's > >> mostly f

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Aptitude installs all recommended packages by default which was rather > > annoying until I found that in the options menu as I ran out of space a > > couple of times. > > as does apt-get. I'm fairly sure synaptic doesn't select recommended by default, however the synaptic package itself is

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-04-09 17:57, Osamu Aoki wrote: [...] >>> I'm not sure if it makes sense to recommend aptitude in its present state. >> >> I wouldn't recommend it when operating with multiarch enabled. Otherwise it's >> mostly fine. Looks like we should start doing some automated upgrade tests with aptitud

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/09/2013 11:57 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:32:52AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On 09/04/2013 06:43, Adam Borowski wrote: Have you been able to get that effect from aptitude? It seems that whenever it sees some trouble (sometimes even when plain apt-get would

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:32:52AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 09/04/2013 06:43, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > >> Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the > >> dependencies > >> satisfactorily the first

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, > Le Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0300, Eugene Lychauka a écrit : > > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html#pkgmgmt > > > > Here we can read: > > > > "The preferred program for interactive package management from a > > terminal is aptitude. For a no

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Wookey wrote: > Is anyone actually working on making the aptitude multiarch-friendly, or > planning to? It appears so, see the bottom of this mail: http://lists.debian.org/deity/2013/04/msg00027.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBS

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:29:09PM +0100, Wookey wrote: [cut] > > I too am a huge aptitude fan. The curses UI is brilliant for working > out what's up when things are a bit broken. However it doesn't deal > with multiarch well so I've been stuck with apt-get trying to work out > fro the tealeaves

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 9 avril 2013 13:29:09, Wookey a écrit : > > I too am a huge aptitude fan. The curses UI is brilliant for working > out what's up when things are a bit broken. However it doesn't deal > with multiarch well so I've been stuck with apt-get trying to work out > fro the tealeaves what's wrong.

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Wookey
+++ Chow Loong Jin [2013-04-09 09:32 +0800]: > On 09/04/2013 06:43, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > >> Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the > >> dependencies > >> satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude in

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
On 2013-04-09 11:05, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Aptitude installs all recommended packages by default which was rather > annoying until I found that in the options menu as I ran out of space a > couple of times. as does apt-get. -- brother http://sis.bthstudent.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> For instance, one of the (ugly) boxes I help admin recently > had 1000 pacakges yet to update and > 60 security packages not done, and not > enough space on the box to do them. Aptitude installs all recommended packages by default which was rather annoying until I found that in the options me

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, April 08, 2013 18:43:06, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the > > dependencies satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude install foo), > > aptitude allows you > > >

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/04/2013 06:43, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the dependencies >> satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude install foo), aptitude allows >> you >> to interactively pic

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the >> dependencies satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude install >> foo), aptitude allows you to interactively pick other solutions, or

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the dependencies > satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude install foo), aptitude allows > you > to interactively pick other solutions, or tell it what to do: Have

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0300, Eugene Lychauka a écrit : > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html#pkgmgmt > > Here we can read: > > "The preferred program for interactive package management from a > terminal is aptitude. For a non-interactive comma

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/04/2013 23:02, Eugene Lychauka wrote: > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html#pkgmgmt > > Here we can read: > > "The preferred program for interactive package management from a > terminal is aptitude. For a non-interactive command line interface for >

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, April 08, 2013 11:02:27, Eugene Lychauka wrote: > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.htm > l#pkgmgmt > > Here we can read: > > "The preferred program for interactive package management from a > terminal is aptitude. For a non-interactive command lin