On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > Aptitude users's manual explains the reinstall men?? command as follows: > > > Reinstalls the package. > > > > Note that the reinstallation will not be saved when you quit aptitude or > > perform an install run for technical reasons. (essentially, the underlying > > software layers (dpkg and apt) do not provide any way to find out whether > > a reinstallation was successful or not). > > I'm not sure what does it mean with "will not be saved when you...". Is > it that there will be no way to know that the package was reinstalled or > that the action will be executed immediately and not when I press g? Or > maybe something else.
It means what it says. Aptitude keeps track of a package's state: installed, not-installed, installed-but-not-configured. It contains no state "reinstalled". So, you tell aptitude to reinstall a package. It fetches the .deb and tells dpkg to install it. When dpkg returns, it either returns successful or not, but aptitude has no way to record a correct reinstall. You should watch the screen. It is for this reason that I consider a reinstall and a deinstall-install cycle as not the same thing. The latter will be tracked by aptitude. Aptitude will never do anything before you hit 'g'. --- Is this an academic question or are you having a problem? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
