Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Bremner: > Julian Andres Klode writes: > >> >> apt install _toremove +toinstall >> > > A common convention is to do something like > > apt install -- -toremove +toinstall > > I would prefer that to rolling our own syntax, unless there's some good > reason (other than the small amount of

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-10 Thread David Bremner
Julian Andres Klode writes: > > apt install _toremove +toinstall > A common convention is to do something like apt install -- -toremove +toinstall I would prefer that to rolling our own syntax, unless there's some good reason (other than the small amount of extra typing) d

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-10 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:36:25AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-03-10 at 06:58, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 09:41:44PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > >> ### Incompatibilities > >> > >> * The apt(8) command no longer accepts regular expressions or

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-03-10 at 06:58, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 09:41:44PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > >> ### Incompatibilities >> >> * The apt(8) command no longer accepts regular expressions or wildcards as >> package arguments, use patterns (see New Features). > >

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-10 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 09:41:44PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > ### Incompatibilities > > * The apt(8) command no longer accepts regular expressions or wildcards as > package arguments, use patterns (see New Features). Correction - regular expressions starting in ^ or ending in $ (that

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-08 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 08.03.20 19:10, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Matthias Klose (2020-03-08 18:40:34) >> On 3/7/20 9:41 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >>> # APT 2.0 >>> >>> After brewing in experimental for a while, and getting a first outing in >>> the Ubuntu 19.10 release; both as 1.9, APT 2.0 is now

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-08 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 02:40:56PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Hi, > > 在 2020-03-07六的 21:41 +0100,Julian Andres Klode写道: > > # APT 2.0 > > ### Incompatibilities > > > > * The apt(8) command no longer accepts regular expressions or wildcards as > > package arguments, use patterns (see New

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-08 Thread Boyuan Yang
Hi, 在 2020-03-07六的 21:41 +0100,Julian Andres Klode写道: > # APT 2.0 > ### Incompatibilities > > * The apt(8) command no longer accepts regular expressions or wildcards as > package arguments, use patterns (see New Features). A little comment on this: I am okay with apt(8) no longer accepting

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-08 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 07:10:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Matthias Klose (2020-03-08 18:40:34) > > On 3/7/20 9:41 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > # APT 2.0 > > > > > > After brewing in experimental for a while, and getting a first outing in > > > the Ubuntu 19.10 release;

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 07:10:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Matthias Klose (2020-03-08 18:40:34) > > $ apt show >/dev/null | cat > > > > WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in > > scripts. > > > > Is there a roadmap when the CLI interface will

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Matthias Klose (2020-03-08 18:40:34) > On 3/7/20 9:41 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > # APT 2.0 > > > > After brewing in experimental for a while, and getting a first outing in > > the Ubuntu 19.10 release; both as 1.9, APT 2.0 is now landing in unstable. > > 1.10 would be a boring,

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-08 Thread Matthias Klose
On 3/7/20 9:41 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > # APT 2.0 > > After brewing in experimental for a while, and getting a first outing in > the Ubuntu 19.10 release; both as 1.9, APT 2.0 is now landing in unstable. > 1.10 would be a boring, weird number, eh? > > Compared to the 1.8 series, the APT

apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-07 Thread Julian Andres Klode
# APT 2.0 After brewing in experimental for a while, and getting a first outing in the Ubuntu 19.10 release; both as 1.9, APT 2.0 is now landing in unstable. 1.10 would be a boring, weird number, eh? Compared to the 1.8 series, the APT 2.0 series features several new features, as well as