Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable
On Mon 27 May 2024 at 12:23:41 (-0400), Michael Grant wrote:
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> so I thought I'd try the same process with db5.3, but removing db5.3
> wants to remove a slew of packages:
>
> # apt reinstall -s libdb5.3/bookworm
> ...
> Selected version '5.3.28+dfsg2-1' (Debian:12.5/stable [amd64]) for 'libdb5.3'
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> acl apache2-data apache2-utils augeas-lenses avahi-daemon clamav-base colord-data git-man gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg-wks-server guile-3.0-libs ipp-usb libapr1 libaprutil1
> libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaugeas0 libavahi-core7 libcolorhug2 libdaemon0 libexif12 libgphoto2-l10n libgphoto2-port12 libgudev-1.0-0 libgusb2 libhashkit2 libieee1284-3 libldap-common
> liblua5.3-0 libnspr4 libnss-mdns libnss3 libopendbx1 libopendbx1-sqlite3 libopendkim11 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler126 libpython2-stdlib libpython3.11 librbl1 librtmp1 libsane-common
> libsnmp-base libsnmp40 libssh2-1 libvbr2 mailutils-common python2 python2-minimal python3-augeas sane-airscan update-inetd usb.ids
> Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them
So what did it say after that?
> Is there some way to get apt to reinstall a package such that it does
> not think it has to uninstall things which depend on it because it's
> being immediatly reinstalled?
That is the idea behind reinstall, though downgrading is always
a test of its ability to succeed.
Cheers,
David.
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