On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > (especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of > > downloading changed packages..) > > I dont have a example right now, but on my system aptitude will download the > same package again and again. So in case it sees a difference must be > related two different sources provide the same package entry. then it > downloads the pakcage from one source and compares it with the entry of > another source. Hmm.. i will watch the problems and report them.
Ok, between this and another message sent to me, I think that the problem is that aptitude doesn't clear sticky "reinstall" flags, and must be autoflagging stuff for reinstall when this occur. This doesn't have a really great solution, since you can't (easily) tell whether a reinstall was successful after the fact, but I could just unconditionally clear the reinstall flag for now; I doubt many people use it manually. In the future, I suppose a fancy system for detecting reinstallations is possible, but it might be more trouble than it's worth. Daniel -- /----------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------\ | f u cn rd ths, | Apostrophes are not a warning that a | | u cn gt a jb s | word is about to end in an "s". | | a cmptr prgrmr. | | \-Evil Overlord, Inc: planning your future today. http://www.eviloverlord.com-/