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

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson jidanni at jidanni.org
Wed Dec 30 00:04:58 UTC 2015


MAFM>  safe-upgrade && full-upgrade
MAFM>  ...

MAFM>  If no <package>s are listed on the command line, aptitude will attempt
MAFM>  to upgrade every package that can be upgraded. Otherwise, aptitude
MAFM>  will attempt to upgrade only the packages which it is instructed to
MAFM>  upgrade. The <package>s can be extended with suffixes in the same
MAFM>  manner as arguments to aptitude install, so you can also give
MAFM>  additional instructions to aptitude here; for instance, aptitude
MAFM>  safe-upgrade bash dash- will attempt to upgrade the bash package and
MAFM>  remove the dash package.

Well this should also mention how
# aptitude safe-upgrade
# aptitude safe-upgrade

or

# aptitude full-upgrade
# aptitude full-upgrade

will do more sometimes than just the single versions.
Because else the reader must somehow read between the lines to figure it
out.
It would be nice if all children would know that flushing the toilet
twice sometimes helps, but some will just give up after the first
failure.

Especially upon seeing
"E: Unable to correct for unavailable packages"
they might abandon hope. So maybe that should also say
"E: Unable to correct for unavailable packages. Maybe try running again..."



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