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

Goswin von Brederlow goswin-v-b at web.de
Thu Jul 23 20:38:13 UTC 2009


Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> writes:

> 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

Copy the database over. :) With the diverting this worked perfectly as
it would just keep using the old database. Now ia32-aptitude looks in
the wrong place.

MfG
        Goswin





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