Re: Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload
Hi, I like dselect, dpkg, and aptitude. I have a request. aptitude should import and export
/var/lib/dpkg/status
At least when asked. Right now aptitude takes awkwardly and but doesn't give back.
It's not just private selections. Private methods and worse pivate status make other programs
impossible.
"aptitude : attempts to detect status of dpkg or dselect" That's is far short of par - noting how
sipmle the task of using human readable status as save format is.
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstatus
(also it uses pieced avail lists/ instead of unified avail in dpkg/ )
pkgstatus contains incorrect information! and it codes states "1 3 3 4" while using wide text for
everything but that.
My main concern is the these "states" for aptitude are private data - excluding other software - and
covering up why things are wrong. (takeover issues)
Lastly, an end user (me) can make install errors by using aptitude, dpkg, apt-get, dselect not
realizing that aptitude uses privatized unshared current system disk status that isn't what dpkg
uses (and how would you know if it's not in a status file to see?)
There's a way to get aptitude states maybe by relying on dump software. Though relying on anyone
keeping dumpers efficient and up to date simply isn't a great idea.
a more efficient status file (table) is maybe a good idea but using object dumps for system status -
not wise.
Thanks much i enjoy aptitude and dselect both :)
John
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dep-trace
see examples
new ver not yet uploaded show specific depends order of all in status
which it can't do without status [and dpkg --compare-versions]
anohter script has demonstrated it then can use dpkg to , optionally ,
use current status dependancy order as an order to install new packages
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 09:35:39 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
I'll be uploading dpkg 1.16.2 targeting unstable, by the end of
from the available file and the db could end up with a selection that
could not be addressed from the command line when other more specific
selections were present.
Package: foo
Status: install ok not-installed
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