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Re: Aptitude wish list item



On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Florian Kulzer
<florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:36 +0000, Bob Cox wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne wrote:
>> > > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the
>> > > past month.  I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude.
>>
>> > How about apt-listbugs?
>>
>> That's exactly what Wayne is talking about IMHO - if you install
>> apt-listbugs it will be run automatically for each package that is to be
>> installed, but *after* all packages have been downloaded, which is a
>> waste of bandwith, time and money.
>>
>> > apt-listbugs -s all list openoffice.org
>>
>> Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed.
>
> apt-listbugs list $(aptitude -F%p search '~U')
>
And then you need to select non-buggy packages and pass them to
aptitude install. Sure, can be done by a bash script but I think it
deserves to be a standard aptitude operation or something.

Alexey


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