[Aptitude-devel] Bug#597549: aptitude: Please skip "more than 40 packages match pattern" when using ":" to resolve an upgrade (interactive mode)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo


Hi,

2010-09-20 19:32 Daniel Hahler:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.3-3.1
>Severity: normal
>Tags: upstream
>
>Using ":package-name-or-pattern" during upgrade/installation is very
>useful to skip some package(s).
>
>However, the check if more than 40 packages match a pattern gets applied
>also, without limiting it to effective packages being matched (those in
>the list to install/upgrade).
>
>The message is:
>  "Couldn't find package \"%s\", and more than 40\npackages
>  contain \"%s\" in their name"
>
>Please skip this check altogether in interactive mode (in contrast to
>the pattern being passed on the command line), or - maybe better - limit
>it to the effective packages being matched, i.e. when using ":php5-*" to
>leave all php5-* packages as is for this upgrade, just reject the
>pattern, if more than 40 php5-packages would have been upgraded (in
>contrast to more than 40 php5-packages known to aptitude).

I don't understand very well the request.  What's the purpose of this?

The user already knows that all packages matching "php5-*" are going to
be kept, no need to show all 145 of them (count of packages named like
that today).


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>