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Re: Bug#176928: apt: say upgraded instead of installed



On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> # apt-get install    fetchmail
> ...The following extra packages will be installed:  [1]
>   fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ...
> # apt-get install -u fetchmail
> ...The following extra packages will be installed:  [2]
>   fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ...
> ...The following packages will be upgraded          [3]
>   fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ...
> 
> Why not always output 3 instead of 1 and 2?

3 is generally not as usefull as 1. 1 tells you what is going to happen
in addition to what you asked explicitly for.

-u is really only meaningful for dist-upgrade and upgrade which don't
usually list upgradeded packages, only removed/installed packages. 

Jason



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