[Aptitude-devel] Bug#407284: Is ~.aptitude really neaded ?

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 16:55:18 UTC 2015


Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Fabrice,

2007-01-17 11:37 Fabrice LORRAIN:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.4-1
>Severity: normal
>
>
>Hello,
>
>Related to BTS #272409.
>Pb detected on a fresh etch installation (aptitude-0.4.4-1) but reported
>from a sarge box. The package dependencies attached by reportbug is
>uncorrect.
>
># cd /root ; rm -fr .aptitude; LANG=C aptitude clean; ls -lisa .aptitude
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree... Done
>Reading extended state information
>Initializing package states... Done
>Reading task descriptions... Done
>Building tag database... Done
>total 8
>32577 4 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-01-17 12:31 .
>32579 4 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-01-17 12:31 ..
>32589 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 2007-01-17 12:31 config
>
>Is there any usfullness in creating an empty config file when
>aptitude is used ?
>
>Reading through aptitude changelog attached to #272409, I'm even wondering if
>creating .aptitude is usfull at all ?

Thanks for your report.  A fix for this is commited, empty files are not
not saved (or removed if found), and same for the directory.

It will be present in the next release, so marking as +pending.


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



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