Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote:

>
> apt-get install privoxy ??

This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I want to 
upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade the privoxy no matter whether it 
requires it or not.

Perhaps privoxy is not such a good example. Consider the metapackage kde. 
Initially if I say

apt-get install kde

it will also pull say konqueror package. Now after some time, konqueror 
package gets upgraded and kde is not upgraded. Now if I do

apt-get install kde

then konqueror is not upgraded. I want the upgrade of konqueror to be 
automatic whenever kde is upgraded

Anyway, I was browsing the BTS and found

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=74067
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=93549

Those bugs were reported around 5 years ago! So probably there is no way to do 
this by default with apt-get.

raju

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