Bug#158372: apt: 'normalize' command for apt
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
It would be good if apt had a 'normalize' command, similar to
'upgrade', but that would downgrade packages automatically also.
For example, suppose someone installed a stable system, then
installed a few packages from 'unstable' to see if some bugs
were fixed. The bugs were not fixed, so they would like to
return the system to entirely stable. The APT sources.list only
contains stable sources, so issuing:
apt-get update
apt-get normalize
would downgrade the appropriate packages back to stable.
Packages not available with /etc/apt/sources.list at all would
have a warning issued, so the user could decide whether to
remove or not (perhaps a --force-removal-of-non-available option
or similar could be added to make this easier?)
Regards,
Andrew.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux laura 2.4.18 #1 Thu Jun 27 18:43:52 BST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_UK, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
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