[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#537750: Bug#537750: ia32-apt-get: probably an aptitude problem

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/7/22 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de>:
> Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> writes:
>
>> Package: ia32-apt-get
>> Version: 22
>> Followup-For: Bug #537750
>>
>>
>> This is probably in part an aptitude problem. When it tries to resolve
>> complex dependencies (on which apt usually gives up) it would get *grade
>> happy and upgrade/downgrade unrelated packages that do not affect the
>> issue at hand.
>>
>> However the issue is in part that separate update invocations to convert
>> the package lists and to upgrade both apt and ia32-apt make it somewhat
>> difficult to keep everything in sync.
>
> Do not use apt or aptitude at all. Just use ia32-apt or
> ia32-aptitude. It does everything already.
>

That's not very practical. You can install packages in ia32-aptitude
an remove what you have installed there but since aptitude and
ia32-aptitude do not share the database of automatically installed
packages you have to go to aptitude when removing a previously
installed package to have its automatically installed dependencies
removed as well.

Thanks

Michal