On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:21:14AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Can anyone explain what the final line from an > > aptitude update (After setting sources.list to "testing") > > aptitude full-upgrade > > This very last line from aptitude seems like its probably full of > meaning, but not much use if I cannot find out what the heck it means. > > It apparently sums up what happened during the last 1hr+ of scrolling > and scrolling output. > ,---- > | Current status: 0 updates [-1029], 37263 new [-11] > `---- This string appears to be generated around http://sources.debian.net/src/aptitude/0.6.8-1/src/cmdline/cmdline_util.cc?hl=376#L376 That appears to indicate that there are (in your example) 0 updates and this has gone down by 1029. In other words, at the start of the aptitude run there were 1029 packages to update and now there are 0. Additionally, at the start of the run there were 32774 new packages and now there are 32763 - probably some were installed as dependencies of the update. > > Some seem to be awfully high numbers if the are tracking pkgs, > nnless the numbers are an accounting of each and every FILE during > this upgrade. Not really. 32000 packages sounds about right for the whole of debian. I can't find an official number at the moment... Ah, here we are http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian says "over 37500"
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