Package: apt Version: 0.7.20 Severity: normal Hi, given this status file: Package: pkg1 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: perl Installed-Size: 80 Maintainer: bla Architecture: powerpc Version: 1 Description: empty Package: pkg2 Status: install ok config-files Priority: optional Section: perl Installed-Size: 80 Maintainer: bla Architecture: powerpc Version: 1 Description: empty Package: java-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 348 Maintainer: Debian Java Mailing List <debian-java@lists.debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 0.30 Suggests: equivs Description: Base of all Java packages apt-get behaves differently on reinstalling. % LCC apt-get -o Dir::State::status=/tmp/status -o Dir::Cache=/tmp --reinstall --quiet=2 --print-uris --ignore-missing install java-common pkg1 'ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/j/java-common/java-common_0.30_all.deb' java-common_0.30_all.deb 77022 SHA256:600554190a9c05d2f2b93b803eb146627208edb6acf8030f0cde3cb10a9e2bc0 % LCC apt-get -o Dir::State::status=/tmp/status -o Dir::Cache=/tmp --reinstall --quiet=2 --print-uris --ignore-missing install java-common pkg2 E: Package pkg2 has no installation candidate % echo $? 100 In the first case it ignores the package it hasn't an installation candidate for, but in the second it fails. I've expected it would ignore in the second case, too. The option --ignore-missing doesn't change anything. How is it possible to make apt-get ignores non‐available not fully installed packages? Bye, Jörg. -- System Information: Debian Release: unstable/experimental APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-2 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: ii apt-doc 0.7.20 Documentation for APT pn aptitude | synaptic | gnome-a <none> (no description available) ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.14.24 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.8 Python interface to libapt-pkg -- no debconf information
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