Re: unattended aptitude

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 02:30:22PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> >Ah -- the "things" in --force-things is a syntactic metavariable[1] :-)
> 
>   Actually, I tried
>       aptitude --force-things confold safe-upgrade
>       aptitude --force-things=confold safe-upgrade
>       aptitude --force-confold safe-upgrade
> 
>    and all gave the same "aptitude: unrecognized option"
>    but gave me the opportunity to discover the "Super Cow Powers" and
>    all the "aptitude -v moo" gags (.
> 
>    What was missing was the -o flag. With it, both works:
> 
>       aptitude -o --force-things=confold safe-upgrade
>         and
>       aptitude -o --force-confold safe-upgrade

Oh, I see.

Now I learnt something new, thanks!

regards
- -- t
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