Re: Aptitude's reintall
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:30:15AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:04:02PM -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> was heard to say:
> Just to clarify, the problem isn't just that aptitude doesn't have a
> state for "reinstall". It actually did at one point (#167236, #121346),
> but there's no way for aptitude to find out from the dpkg/apt layer
> whether a reinstall that it requested actually took place. (ideally the
> reinstall state should persist until the reinstallation is performed,
> then be removed) Without this information it has to either arbitrarily
> preserve all reinstalls, or arbitrarily drop all of them, and after
> getting the bugs referenced above, I decided that dropping all of them
> was a less annoying behavior.
>
> Usually aptitude figures this sort of thing out with an after-the-fact
> examination of package states, but since a reinstallation leaves
> packages in the same state that they started in, this won't work to
> detect reinstalls.
Why not have aptitude: 1) retreive the deb(s) required; 2) deinstall the
package and verify that it is nolonger installed; 3) immediatly
reinstall the package and verify that that it is now installed.
Currently running programs won't be affected, only attempts to run new
instances while the reinstall is happening.
Doug.
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