Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 10 August 2008 11:56, Bob Cox wrote: > Gabriel - thank you very much for your extremely useful reply. It all > worked perfectly and having now successfully applied the patch, I can > confirm that I cannot reproduce the bug. Ahuh! Great. This is what we are made of. Very good job every

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:11:18 +0200, Sven Joachim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2008-08-10 01:41 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but > > think maybe I see what *is* happening. The code that I wrote to use the > > apt re

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 04:46:36 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Come on, the debian people made patching software a children game. These > are the simple steps you should follow: > As root: > aptitude install build-essential fakeroot > apt-get build-dep aptitude > > As nor

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El dom, 10-08-2008 a las 07:35 +0100, Bob Cox escribió: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 16:41:40 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > No, it'll spew large amounts of debuggin

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-10 01:41 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but > think maybe I see what *is* happening. The code that I wrote to use the > apt resolver as a fallback option is accidentally resetting every hold > state in the database. D

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 16:41:40 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > No, it'll spew large amounts of debugging information to your > > terminal which you can then paste into a m

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > No, it'll spew large amounts of debugging information to your > terminal which you can then paste into a mail to me. :-) Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but think

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +0100, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:13:33 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > > > It's a bug.

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:13:33 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > It's a bug. If "aptitude safe-upgrade" can't find any packages that are > > _not_ on hold (or forbidden), it wi

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > It's a bug. If "aptitude safe-upgrade" can't find any packages that are > _not_ on hold (or forbidden), it will try to upgrade packages that you > don't want to. See http://bugs.debian.org/466228. T

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 17:21:32 +0200, Sven Joachim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2008-08-09 17:11 +0200, Bob Cox wrote: > > > I have some packages on hold for a while and they have remained on hold > > during several safe-upgrades. Now, all of a sudden, aptitude wants to > > upgrade two of

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-09 17:11 +0200, Bob Cox wrote: > I have some packages on hold for a while and they have remained on hold > during several safe-upgrades. Now, all of a sudden, aptitude wants to > upgrade two of them. > > trantor:/home/bob# aptitude search ~ahold > ih iceweasel- lightwe

Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Cox
I have some packages on hold for a while and they have remained on hold during several safe-upgrades. Now, all of a sudden, aptitude wants to upgrade two of them. trantor:/home/bob# aptitude search ~ahold ih iceweasel- lightweight web browser based on Mozilla ih iceweasel-l10n-e