Re: Aptitude's reintall
El vie, 28-12-2007 a las 16:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty escribió:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
> >
> > Aptitude users's manual explains the reinstall men?? command as follows:
> >
> > > Reinstalls the package.
> > >
> > > Note that the reinstallation will not be saved when you quit aptitude or
> > > perform an install run for technical reasons. (essentially, the underlying
> > > software layers (dpkg and apt) do not provide any way to find out whether
> > > a reinstallation was successful or not).
> >
> > I'm not sure what does it mean with "will not be saved when you...". Is
> > it that there will be no way to know that the package was reinstalled or
> > that the action will be executed immediately and not when I press g? Or
> > maybe something else.
>
> It means what it says. Aptitude keeps track of a package's state:
> installed, not-installed, installed-but-not-configured. It contains no
> state "reinstalled". So, you tell aptitude to reinstall a package. It
> fetches the .deb and tells dpkg to install it. When dpkg returns, it
> either returns successful or not, but aptitude has no way to record a
> correct reinstall. You should watch the screen.
>
> It is for this reason that I consider a reinstall and a
> deinstall-install cycle as not the same thing. The latter will be
> tracked by aptitude.
>
> Aptitude will never do anything before you hit 'g'.
>
Thank you!
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