[Aptitude-devel] Bug#469219: [wishlist] please provide a way not to touch manual install flag during package installation

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Richard,

2008-03-08 09:59 Richard Hartmann:
>retitle 469219 Please add documentation to reflect aptitude's
>automagic smartness
>thanks
>
>On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Daniel Burrows <dburrows at debian.org> wrote:
>
>>   or go into the curses interface and do the same thing.  Just
>>  "installing" (i.e., upgrading) a already-installed package will not
>>  (should not) touch its auto flag. [...]
>
>OK, now I know why we misunderstood each other :)
>
>Normally using apt-get, myself, the first place I turned to when needing
>this one particular feature, I did not actually check the results of an
>aptitude run, but went through the manpage of aptitude, instead. Based
>on what I read there, I assumed the feature was missing completely.
>
>We can close this bug, but I would request you add a short line to the
>manapge to reflect aptitude install's behaviour. I will not close the bug
>myself, as you might want to keep it in order to track the new request.

Thanks for the report.

Added an explanation about this in the "install" action in the man page,
so marking as +pending.


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