[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Michael Biebl wrote:
> > I somehow doubt that. As I see it, this either this broke only very
> > recently (after the 0.8.3 upload) or it's only happening under some
> > circumstances.
> 
> Just curious, can you reproduce the issue with the steps I outlined?

Haven't tried it yet admittedly.

> From what I can see, once /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates exists, there is a
> complete disconnect between the autobit state of aptitude and apt.

Not in my case. A Sid amd64 desktop machine with close to 10000
packages installed show nearly no difference between apt's and
aptitude's view on the autoinstalled flag:

# colordiff -u <(aptitude search '~M' | awk '{print $3}') <(apt-mark showauto)
--- /proc/self/fd/11    2016-10-20 02:17:28.622307073 +0200
+++ /proc/self/fd/12    2016-10-20 02:17:28.622307073 +0200
@@ -7254,7 +7254,7 @@
 texlive-htmlxml
 texlive-lang-african
 texlive-lang-all
--
+texlive-lang-arabic
 texlive-lang-chinese
 texlive-lang-cjk
 texlive-lang-cyrillic

According to your description, I'd expect tons of differences.

> The first time /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates is created, it inherits the
> autobit state from the apt db, but after that, any changes apt makes are
> no longer applied to aptitude.
> 
> Is this not happening for you?

Seems not, no. But then again, I'm using aptitude most of the time and
apt only in a few percent of all cases.

		Regards, Axel
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