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Re: http://www.debian.org/contact



Miles Bader (miles@ccs.mt.nec.co.jp) wrote:

> peter karlsson <pk@mds.mdh.se> writes:

> > > Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what
> > > *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove as a result of
> > > upgrading a particular package (because they're dependencies, or
> > > conflicts), like dselect does?

> > I don't think so.

> I was afraid that was the answer...unfortunately console-apt simply
> isn't a sufficient replacement for dselect without this feature (in some
> form or another; maybe it could be less whizzy than dselect's, but it's
> gotta be there).

This works:

  jekyll# apt-get -s install ae
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    slang1 
  2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded.
  Inst ae []
  Inst slang1
  Conf slang1
  Conf ae

Unfortunately, that doesn't show you what version it wants to use;
for that, I use this:

  jekyll# apt-get --print-uris install ae
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    slang1 
  2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded.
  Need to get 200kB of archives. After unpacking 108kB will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
  'http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/slang1_1.3.8-2.1.deb' slang1_1.3.8-2.1_i386.deb 164854 2e1bc6e0c30ed211024cd197f9c8b242
  'http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/ae_962-25.1.deb' ae_962-25.1_i386.deb 35360 59df7b78823f8304e7da3e3915ef6f7b

(Ugly, but functional.)

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