Bug#33394: not a bug?
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:11:11PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > If I recall correctly, the default status for a new package used to be > > "hold ok not-installed", whereas it is currently "purge ok > > not-installed". > > I highly doubt that. If so that is years and years ago and certainly no > longer relevant. Let's see polya:~ $ grep-status -F Status "hold ok not-installed" -s Package | wc -l 1942 Hmm, that's 1942 entries in the status file which have this status. That makes it certainly still relevant for me. (Incidentally, it seems that the change to dpkg's behaviour happened around 1998, so it was years and years ago, but stuff like this has a habit of sticking around for a *long* time.) One possibility of cleaning up this properly might be to have dpkg internally convert "hold ok not-installed" to "purge ok not-installed" so that the next time the status file is updated by dpkg, there are no more entries with this status. This code would only need to exist for sarge (or possibly also sarge+1), for after that, everyone who's followed Debian release-by-release will have had their status files upgraded. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London website: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~jdg/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see: http://people.debian.org/~jdg/ Visit http://www.thehungersite.com/ to help feed the hungry
Bug#33394: not a bug?
Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > If I recall correctly, the default status for a new package used to be > "hold ok not-installed", whereas it is currently "purge ok > not-installed". I highly doubt that. If so that is years and years ago and certainly no longer relevant. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.wiggy.net/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
Bug#33394: not a bug?
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:51:48AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Housekeeping ... > > > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:41:59 + (GMT) > > > > dpkg --forget-old-unavail only removes unavailable packages > > from the status file which have Status: purge ok not-installed, > > but not those which have Status: hold ok not-installed, > > This doesn't look like a bug to me. Close? If I recall correctly, the default status for a new package used to be "hold ok not-installed", whereas it is currently "purge ok not-installed". So it may still be worth keeping this around for a bit. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London website: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~jdg/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see: http://people.debian.org/~jdg/ Visit http://www.thehungersite.com/ to help feed the hungry
Bug#33394: not a bug?
Housekeeping ... > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:41:59 + (GMT) > > dpkg --forget-old-unavail only removes unavailable packages > from the status file which have Status: purge ok not-installed, > but not those which have Status: hold ok not-installed, This doesn't look like a bug to me. Close? -- Thomas
