Re: APT problem
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de> was heard to say:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > (especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of
> > downloading changed packages..)
>
> I dont have a example right now, but on my system aptitude will download the
> same package again and again. So in case it sees a difference must be
> related two different sources provide the same package entry. then it
> downloads the pakcage from one source and compares it with the entry of
> another source. Hmm.. i will watch the problems and report them.
Ok, between this and another message sent to me, I think that the problem
is that aptitude doesn't clear sticky "reinstall" flags, and must be
autoflagging stuff for reinstall when this occur. This doesn't have a really
great solution, since you can't (easily) tell whether a reinstall was
successful after the fact, but I could just unconditionally clear the
reinstall flag for now; I doubt many people use it manually. In the future,
I suppose a fancy system for detecting reinstallations is possible, but it
might be more trouble than it's worth.
Daniel
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