Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sb, 15 ian 11, 19:42:26, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>
>> Actually this only helps cleaning the system of unneeded packages, but
>> still leaves me with a lot of packages not marked auto, so I had to
>> apply Javier's hack after all.
>
> Ok, this looks like the best version so far:
>
> Backup:
> aptitude --disable-columns -F %p search '~i!~M' > $PKG_LIST
> (in case you're wondering, my list currently has 177 packages)
>
> Restore (as root):
> aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false markauto ~i
> aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false unmarkauto $(cat $PKG_LIST | tr "\n" " ")
> aptitude keep-all
>
> I still don't understand why 'Delete-Unused=false' is necessary with
> 'unmarkauto' and an additional 'keep-all' is needed, but at least it
> works.
When you invoke aptitude unmarkauto ... aptitude has all your packages
with auto mark, so aptitude will want to delete these unused packages
*before* it start with your operation (unmarkauto in this case). I
think it make sense
Regards,
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