Re: Bug#250120: aptitude: aptitude does not preserve reinstall flag
reassign 250120 aptitude,apt
thanks
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:56:39PM +0200, Daniel Skarda <0rfelyus@hobitin.ucw.cz> was heard to say:
> > Due to disk failure I had to reinstall many packages. I marked packages with 'r'
> > and start reinstallation. There were some errors during reinstallation, so apt
> > reinstalled some packages successfully, some of packages are not configured and
> > some are not unpacked at all.
> >
> > The problem is that now, after I returned back to aptitude screen, I can not
> > distinguish between reinstalled packages and not yet processed packages, because
> > aptitude clears 'r' flags from all packages (which is quite frustrating, since
> > there were _many_ packages to reinstalll).
>
> See #167236, #121346. It's impossible to tell whether a
> reinstallation succeeded, both permanent reinstalls and impermanent
> reinstalls will cause problems sometimes, and permanent reinstalls
> seem to generally be much more annoying.
>
> Someday, when dpkg can tell apt that a particular package installation
> succeeded and apt uses the information, this bug can be closed.
I think you have all that is needed with --status-fd, no? Maybe libapt
doesn't offer enough return information to make this possible but then
it's a bug against apt and not dpkg.
Thus reassigning the bug to apt and aptitude.
Cheers,
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