Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-15 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sa, 15 Okt 2011, Josh Triplett wrote: > quickly by using the "reject" and "approve" mechanism. When you view Thanks for that hint, yes, that works actually much better. No I only have to remember it ;-) Best wishes Norbert -

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-15 Thread Josh Triplett
Norbert Preining wrote: > In the current transition to gnome3 (or it seems) I press > U > to update all packages, and then it suggests me to remove 30 or > so packages. > > I know this game, normally I have to press "." a few times to come > to the solution that simply keeps some of the pa

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Marvin Renich wrote: > You can use "aptitude safe-upgrade --visual-preview", though this is not > particularly convenient when already running the aptitude cua. That was very useful, and actually works. Great. > You can also check out "Aptitude::Always-Use-Safe-Resolver". I a

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Jarek Kamiński wrote: > > Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? > > You can use aptitude --safe-resolver. Didn't work either ... still not getting the best result. I still get "6 removals, 1 keep" instead of "n keeps", and after 30 or so proposals all removin

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > priority set in /etc/apt/preferences? Mine looks like this and I Good point. Strange enough I have a *very* strange /etc/apt/preferences file that I don't remember to have *EVER* created: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable-i386 Pin-Priority: 400 Pac

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Jarek Kamiński
Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: >>> Is there such an option? And if not, can we please please have one? >> aptitude safe-upgrade has been around for years. > Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? You can use aptitude --safe-resolver. -- pozdr(); // Jarek -- To U

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Marvin Renich
* Miles Bader [111014 03:04]: > Paul Wise writes: > >> Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? > > > > Not AFAICT, I only read the documentation rather than the code though. > > Kinda surprising, actually; this has long been the #1 most horrible > thing about aptitude, and one ab

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Fabian Greffrath
how can I teach aptitude to not be sooo incredible stupid? In the current transition to gnome3 (or it seems) I press Maybe experimental (where gnome3 currently resides) has the wrong priority set in /etc/apt/preferences? Mine looks like this and I regularly upgrade (through apt-get, though) wi

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Miles Bader wrote: > [With the normal "U" command, for my typical usage, aptitude seems to > choose the worst possible solution about 98% of the time.] Agreed on that. What is the most typical scenario sid people are hitting, transitions in progress, and that is solved by keep

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-14 Thread Miles Bader
Paul Wise writes: >> Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? > > Not AFAICT, I only read the documentation rather than the code though. Kinda surprising, actually; this has long been the #1 most horrible thing about aptitude, and one about which there's been plenty of complaining.

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? Not AFAICT, I only read the documentation rather than the code though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Paul, On Fr, 14 Okt 2011, Paul Wise wrote: > > Is there such an option? And if not, can we please please have one? > > aptitude safe-upgrade has been around for years. Not a solution for the interactive mode, or am I wrong? Best wishes Norbert ---

Re: aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Is there such an option? And if not, can we please please have one? aptitude safe-upgrade has been around for years. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

aptitude weirdness wrt upgrades and keeps

2011-10-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, esp aptitude masters, how can I teach aptitude to not be sooo incredible stupid? In the current transition to gnome3 (or it seems) I press U to update all packages, and then it suggests me to remove 30 or so packages. I know this game, normally I have to press "." a few times