[Aptitude-devel] Bug#809347: Bug#809347: mention try second identical run

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Jidanni,

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Aptitude has a neat feature that I am not sure is documented on the man
> page:
> 
> In the case that some of the packages cannot be retrieved, a second run
> of aptitude will install the ones that can!

Indeed.

> So perhaps on the man page mention that a second identical run of e.g.,
> safe-upgrade, full-upgrade, will proceed to install available packages
> that a first run couldn't.

But safe-upgrade and full-upgrade are the wrong examples. They do this
anyway. Also "apt upgrade" and friends do this. That's the idea of all
"upgrade" subcommands: Upgrade (more or less) all upgradable
packages -- independent of if there was a try to upgrade them before.

The nice thing is that aptitude stores installation wishes in general
and the next action will also fulfil them.

E.g. if for "aptitude install pkg1 pkg2" the installation of pkg2
fails, another "aptitude install" without further parameters will try
to install pkg2 again.

		Regards, Axel
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