Re: Unmark auto without apt-mark or aptitutude?

[Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de>]

Am 13.12.2011 23:56, schrieb Bob Proulx:
> To unmark a package as automatically installed.
> 
>   # editor /var/lib/apt/extended_states
> 
> Then find the package that you wish to change and take one of two
> actions:
> 
> 1) If the package is already listed in the file then modify the
>    Auto-Installed: setting.  It would only be in there if the package
>    had been installed as an automatic dependency and so normally that
>    would be flipping the 1 to a 0.  It would be possible to remove the
>    entry completely.
> 
> 2) If the package is not already listed then it is known to be
>    manually installed.  Create an entry to mark it as automatically
>    installed.

Ah, thanks!

Can I safely modify /var/lib/apt/extended_states in a postinst skript,
that is while aptitude | apt-get | ... is running?

I guess /var/lib/apt/extended_states is not officially documented, so
its very unlikely but possible that it might change or disappear in the
future?

Malte