[Aptitude-devel] Bug#562042: aptitude: should have a flag to upgrade all dependencies of a package

[Török Edwin]

On 01/03/2016 03:54 AM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + wontfix
> 
> 
> Hi Török,
> 
> 2009-12-22 08:03 Török Edwin:
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.6.1.3-3
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> aptitude should have a flag to upgrade all the recommends/suggests of the
>> package, when the package is upgraded.
>>
>> For example to upgrade texlive, I would like to just do this:
>> $ aptitude install --update-all-deps texlive-full
>>
>> And it should update all the installed depends, recommended, and suggested
>> dependencies of the package (if possible). Perhaps this should be the default for
>> metapackages.
>>
>> Currently I have to open synaptic, search for texlive, select each package and
>> click upgrade. Aptitude would only update texlive-full package, and not its
>> dependencies. Yes, the dependencies are not strict, but I would still like to
>> upgrade all packages when I upgrade a metapackage, upgrading only the
>> metapackage doesn't make much sense.
> 
> This is already possible (and has been for more than a decade) by using
> patterns (so marking the bug as +wontfix):
> 
>  http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04.html
>  http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html
> 
> 
> For example, to upgrade the suggested dependencies of "texlive-full"
> which are already installed (try with additional '-s' if wary of
> breaking something):
> 
>  $ aptitude upgrade ~i~RSuggests:texlive-full
> 
> 
> I hope that it's obvious to see how to implement what you want from this
> example.
> 
> 
>> Also there should be a flag to install all recommends of an already installed
>> package, similar to --with-recommends but for already installed packages.
> 
>  $ aptitude install '!~i~RRecommends:texlive-full'
> 
> (Install the packages recommended by texlive-full which are not already
> installed -- harmless to omit the '!~i', but generates some errors)
> 
> 
> Hope that helps.

Many thanks, I wasn't aware of this functionality, should've read the online manual you pointed to not just the manpage :)
(the manpage references the online manual for Search Patterns).
This bug can be closed.

Best regards,
--Edwin