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and subject line Re: Bug#476721: aptitude: Unknown command "safe-upgrade"
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regarding aptitude: Unknown command "save-upgrade"
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.10-1+b2
Severity: minor
The command "upgrade" is undocumented in the man page and gives a warning,
works fine otherwise:
| greg:~# aptitude upgrade
| W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead.
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... Done
| Reading extended state information... 0%
| [...]
The command "save-upgrade" is explained in the man page but does not
exist:
| greg:~# aptitude save-upgrade
| Unknown command "save-upgrade"
| aptitude 0.4.10
| Usage: aptitude [-S fname] [-u|-i]
| aptitude [options] <action> ...
| [...]
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (601, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (480,
'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6 0.7.11 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget1 0.5.6.1-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
-- no debconf information
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:49:33PM +0200, Wolfgang Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On 2008-04-20 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just for kicks, could you try running "aptitude --version" and
> > "/usr/bin/aptitude safe-upgrade"? If those don't produce any obvious
> > explanation, I'll leave this as unreproducible until I get the piece of
> > information I'm overlooking that will make it all clear.
>
> | greg:~# aptitude --version
> | aptitude 0.4.10 compiled at Jan 9 2008 05:40:06
> | Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 20080102 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.2-5)
> |
> | NCurses version: 5.6
> | libsigc++ version: 2.0.17
> | greg:~# /usr/bin/aptitude safe-upgrade
> | Unknown command "safe-upgrade"
> | aptitude 0.4.10
> | Usage: aptitude [-S fname] [-u|-i]
> | aptitude [options] <action> ...
> | Actions (if none is specified, aptitude will enter interactive mode):
> |
> | install - Install/upgrade packages
> [...]
I'd be curious to know if "safe-upgrade" was listed here.
> To make really sure to have the right version I reinstalled aptitude
> after that test. Still the same version. But now it works as expected.
That's just weird. I think I'll close the bug for now, since it
doesn't seem to be reproducible; maybe something was wonky with the
binary on your computer (although I can't imagine what would have been).
Daniel
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