Your message dated Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:23:08 +0800 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#275998: apt: [apt-get] please implement "install preference", like preferring apache2 has caused the Debian Bug report #275998, regarding apt: [apt-get] please implement "install preference", like preferring apache2 to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected] immediately.) -- 275998: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275998 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---Package: apt Version: 0.5.27 Severity: wishlist INTRODUCTION In recent bug thread (#275039) I was trying to install phpldapadmin, but interrupted it because it wanted to install Apache 1.x and I preferred Apache 2. I was almost abandoning the phpldapadmin, because I thought only apache 1.x was supported. It later turned out that the phpldapadmin did also support Apache 2.x: Depends: apache | httpd, php4-ldap, php4 (>= 4.1.0) | php4-cgi (>= 4.1.0) | libapache2-mod-php4, debconf (>= 0.2.26) However this was not obvious at "apt-get install" time which suggested Apache 1.x REQUEST The developer's of phpldapadmin informed that apt-get does not have any preference which would be installed if given lines like: apache2 | apache | httpd I think this should be improved somehow: 1) Developer could set the preferred install choice. Perhaps indicated by the order of the "|"; given "A|B|C", the A would be primary install candicate. 2) If user had set in /etc/apt/ap.conf variable APT::Preference-Question: ask Then apt-get, faced with choices, would ask which A, B, C user wants to install. -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---Jari Aalto <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.27 > Severity: wishlist > > INTRODUCTION > > In recent bug thread (#275039) I was trying to install phpldapadmin, but > interrupted it because it wanted to install Apache 1.x and I preferred > Apache 2. I was almost abandoning the phpldapadmin, because I > thought only apache 1.x was supported. > > It later turned out that the phpldapadmin did also support Apache 2.x: > > Depends: apache | httpd, php4-ldap, php4 (>= 4.1.0) | php4-cgi (>= 4.1.0) | > libapache2-mod-php4, debconf (>= 0.2.26) > > However this was not obvious at "apt-get install" time which suggested > Apache 1.x > > REQUEST > > The developer's of phpldapadmin informed that apt-get does not have any > preference which would be installed if given lines like: > > apache2 | apache | httpd > > I think this should be improved somehow: > > 1) Developer could set the preferred install choice. Perhaps indicated > by the order of the "|"; given "A|B|C", the A would be primary > install candicate. > Apt supports this for some years now. I suspect that this assertion was incorrect even at the time. > 2) If user had set in /etc/apt/ap.conf variable > > APT::Preference-Question: ask > > Then apt-get, faced with choices, would ask which A, B, C user > wants to install. apt-get strives for as little interaction as possible, and simple interface. In a situation like the above, where you know you prefer one package over another, you can specify this on the command line: # apt-get install apache2 phpldapadmin Regards
--- End Message ---
