On Ma, 27 oct 20, 13:03:32, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 15:05:36 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 26 oct 20, 09:55:00, John Hasler wrote: > > > > I believe someone demonstrated quite recently on list that dpkg has some > > limits in the number and/or combination of packages it can deal with at > > once, so APT might have to pass them in smaller chunks and/or specific > > order (in case of Pre-Depends: maybe?). > > > > > Dpkg is safe but can be rather frustrating. > > > > As far as I'm concerned it does just fine what it was designed to do. > > Years ago, I used to do mega installs with dpkg, copying the contents > of /var/cache/apt/archives/ from one machine onto a caddy, and then > installing them all on another. > > I'm probably the person who recently demonstrated dpkg's (in)ability > to cleanly install 1558 packages simultaneously without help: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/07/msg00032.html > (its References are all dead links because they fall in the previous month.) Indeed, this is the experiment I was thinking of. > This followed a demonstration of apt-get's reversibility: > specifying 271 "top-level" packages that resulted in 1558 being > installed altogether, and all 1558 being cleanly purged again. Somehow I'm still under the impression that this is supposed to work with dpkg only. You might want to post your findings to debian-dpkg for further investigation. Kind regard, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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