Re: Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2007-12-29 19:35 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Why not have aptitude: 1) retreive the deb(s) required; 2) deinstall the > package and verify that it is nolonger installed; 3) immediatly > reinstall the package and verify that that it is now installed. Sounds rather dangerous to me. You w

Re: Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:30:15AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:04:02PM -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Just to clarify, the problem isn't just that aptitude doesn't have a > state for "reinstall". It actually did at one point (

Re: Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:04:02PM -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > I'm not sure what does it mean with "will not be saved when you...". Is > > it that there will be no way to know that the packa

Re: Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-29 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 28-12-2007 a las 16:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty escribió: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > > Aptitude users's manual explains the reinstall men?? command as follows: > > > > > Reinstalls the package. > > > > > > Note that the reinstallation will no

Re: Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > Aptitude users's manual explains the reinstall men?? command as follows: > > > Reinstalls the package. > > > > Note that the reinstallation will not be saved when you quit aptitude or > > perform an install run for technical