2016-02-23 18:31 Christian Pernegger:
Hello,
I cannot reproduce this behaviour.
Lucky you! I've since found out that I don't even have to quit and
restart aptitude for this to trigger:
mark package for purging, [g],[g] --> package is purged (as expected)
[g] again --> package shows up marked for installation (instead of
nothing to do message)
set package to purge again, [g] -> skips right to the finished, press
any key message,*now* it stays purged
Do you launch aptitude as user and then become root, or launch it as
root?
I launch it as user and then become root as necessary. Standard
sudo-setup as done by the installer when the option to prohibit root
login is selected.
I can reproduce it, when doing it as user.
It looks like the same problem described here, which seems to have been
fixed in the 0.7 series:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570492
How much time passes between the sessions, [...]
Doesn't matter, see above. I'm positive that no other tools are involved.
So a couple of more questions...
Did you just dicover this recently so you don't know if it happened with
older versions of aptitude? Or otherwise, do you know if this happens
only since recently (as in, you are sure that it wasn't happening
before)? Or you have been experiencing it for a long time but only
reported it now?
Do you have the options to automatically install Recommends or Suggests
enabled, in the system, root .aptitude/config or user .aptitude/config?
Ah, yes ... there's this conf file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/, meant to
disable the automatic installation of Recommends and make the UI a
little more dselect-like. I've been using it since dselect was
deprecated, but it looks innocuous enough?
Aptitude::Get-Root-Command "sudo:/usr/bin/sudo";
//Aptitude::Auto-Install "false";
Aptitude::Auto-Fix-Broken "false";
Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
Aptitude::Keep-Recommends "true";
Aptitude::Keep-Suggests "true";
Aptitude::Purge-Unused "false";
Aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping "filter(missing),status,priority,section";
Aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "true";
//Aptitude::Theme "Dselect";
Probably not related, but if we need to dig into the code, maybe some of
this becomes relevant.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
