[Aptitude-devel] Bug#822272: aptitude: No more forgets reinstallation instruction after reinstallation has happened

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-04-25 19:22 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>2016-04-25 12:22 Axel Beckert:
>>Hi Manuel,
>>
>>Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>>>>If I select a package for reinstallation by pressing "L" in the TUI and
>>>>then press 2x "g", the package will be reinstalled.
>>>>
>>>>Afterwards at "Press Return to continue, 'q' followed by Return to
>>>>quit."  I press <Enter> (not Ctrl-C) and it still lists that package for
>>>>reinstallation.
>>>
>>>Hmmm, I cannot reproduce it
>>
>>Meh. Ok, I'll dig up some more details which could be related:
>>
>>* The packages in question are aptitude, aptitude-common,
>> aptitude-dbgsym and aptitude-doc-en 0.8-1. I wanted to reinstall
>> them because I had initially installed a self-built copy of it.
>> Haven't tested other packages yet, but will.
>>[...]
>>Hrm, maybe it's related to respectively only happens due to the new
>>"aptitude can't uninstall aptitude" feature?
>
>If you put the locally built packages in some dir that it's added to
>apt's sources-list, I think that this is a problem that happens
>independently of being "aptitude" packages -- packages with same file
>names but different hashes, and libapt/aptitude somehow prefering one
>over the other.
>
>(I have the gut feeling that solving these cases cleanly, reinstall or
>not, is an unsolvable problem in general).
>
>If you have them outside source.list's dirs and install them with
>e.g. dpkg or "apt local install", then I don't know.

I tried reinstalling {aptitude,aptitude-common}_0.8-1, and after dpkg
performs the actions, aptitude re-reads the states and removes the
"reinstall" status.  In other works, working fine for me.

This is most puzzling.


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