On Friday 01 July 2016 00:35:44 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2016 19:25:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 30 June 2016 21:12:46 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Thats not excusable behavior, but whats worse is that debian's > > > > people are denying there is a problem. 'scuse me? I swear, they > > > > couldn't smell coffee with a nose full of it. > > > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > > > Well, if either of you two (that suffered the runaway aptitude > > > issue) still have the /etc of the box that caused trouble, kindly do > > > this: > > > > > > grep -r Assume-Yes /etc > > > > > > If it returns any match in the aptitude config files, there you have > > > it. > > > > I have this on my desktop at home: > > > > root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# grep -R Assume-Yes /etc > > grep: /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf: No such file or directory > > Binary file /etc/alternatives/aptitude matches > > root@Tux-II:/home/lisi > > > > It rather looks as though I should be worried? > > > > Lisi > > No, thats just grep being grep, it says that of ANY binary file it tries > to read as text. I have spent days pouring over the manpages for grep, > looking for a option to feed it to make grep quit that, simply because > its so verbose that what you are looking for can get lost in its > blathering about that.
Thanks, Gene. :-) Lisi
