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Re: marked_delete and "apt-mark remove"



On 21/09/17 12:19 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:15:55PM -0700, Jack Bates wrote:
On 21/09/17 05:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
On Mi., 20. Sep. 2017, 23:03 Jack Bates <2g567n@nottheoilrig.com
<mailto:2g567n@nottheoilrig.com>> wrote:

    Where does the StateCache::Delete() i.e. StateCache::Mode data get read
    from?

    I'm trying to debug a problem with the Python marked_delete property --
    I expect it to be True after "apt-mark remove", but if I run:

Selections are ignored by apt, except for dselect-upgrade. Markings in
the depcache are a runtime only state.

Ahh -- thank you for clarifying.

What's the *right* way to get the persistent value? The first thing that
comes to mind is grepping /var/lib/dpkg/status directly:

I think you should check that pkg.selected_state for an apt_pkg.Package
is apt_pkg.SELSTATE_DEINSTALL. It's not exposed in the higher level
bindings, though you could get the apt_pkg.Package using the private _pkg
attribute of an apt.Package (but might change in the future, of course).

That works -- thank you!


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