Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:20:55PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
>   
> > Yuriy Padlyak wrote:
> >     
> > > Why aptitude dist-upgrade shows some packages to update, while apt-get 
> > > dist-upgrade - don't?.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >       
> > I believe that this is because aptitude maintains its own record of 
> > which packages you have installed automatically and manually. If you 
> > ever use a different package manager (apt-get, synaptic), this database 
> > gets out of sync. You can get around this using "aptitude unmarkauto" - 
> > see the aptitude man page. There is also some discussion in a previous 
> > thread (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01734.html). 
> > Also, I think that aptitude installs 'recommends' as well as 'depends' 
> > dependencies.
> >
> >     
>
> If you choose this from the aptitude options menu.
>
>   

I was assuming aptitude in CLI mode, in which case the command for 
unmarking automatic install is

# aptitude unmarkauto --schedule-only '~i'

For not installing 'recommends' it would seem that the switch

-R, --without-recommends

would do the trick, though I have not tested this.

--
Chris.