Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:27:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 16 ian 11, 01:00:50, Javier Barroso wrote: When you invoke aptitude unmarkauto ... aptitude has all your packages with auto mark, so aptitude will want to delete these unused packages *before* it start with your operation (unmarkauto in this case). I think it make sense Well, '(un)mark' seems to be doing more than just (un)marking packages which is a bit counter-intuitive to me... I have the impression that the modification of auto flags prompts aptitude to search for unused packages and to schedule them for removal at the very least, if not to remove them right away. The persistence of scheduled actions would explain why aptitude tries to remove these packages when you invoke it a second time, even though you then mark them as non-auto. Another solution might be to use keep-all before unmarkauto. -- Regards,| Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110116090621.GA6083@isar.localhost
Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?
On Du, 16 ian 11, 10:06:21, Florian Kulzer wrote: Another solution might be to use keep-all before unmarkauto. keep-all at that stage has an interesting effect: root@think:~# aptitude search '~i' | wc -l # just for reference 1578 root@think:~# aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false markauto ~i No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. root@think:~# aptitude search '~i!~M' | wc -l # check that it worked 0 root@think:~# aptitude keep-all No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. root@think:~# aptitude search '~i!~M' | wc -l 1463 At this point it obviously doesn't make sense to continue with 'unmarkauto'. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?
On Sb, 15 ian 11, 19:42:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: Actually this only helps cleaning the system of unneeded packages, but still leaves me with a lot of packages not marked auto, so I had to apply Javier's hack after all. Ok, this looks like the best version so far: Backup: aptitude --disable-columns -F %p search '~i!~M' $PKG_LIST (in case you're wondering, my list currently has 177 packages) Restore (as root): aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false markauto ~i aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false unmarkauto $(cat $PKG_LIST | tr \n ) aptitude keep-all I still don't understand why 'Delete-Unused=false' is necessary with 'unmarkauto' and an additional 'keep-all' is needed, but at least it works. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 15 ian 11, 19:42:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: Actually this only helps cleaning the system of unneeded packages, but still leaves me with a lot of packages not marked auto, so I had to apply Javier's hack after all. Ok, this looks like the best version so far: Backup: aptitude --disable-columns -F %p search '~i!~M' $PKG_LIST (in case you're wondering, my list currently has 177 packages) Restore (as root): aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false markauto ~i aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false unmarkauto $(cat $PKG_LIST | tr \n ) aptitude keep-all I still don't understand why 'Delete-Unused=false' is necessary with 'unmarkauto' and an additional 'keep-all' is needed, but at least it works. When you invoke aptitude unmarkauto ... aptitude has all your packages with auto mark, so aptitude will want to delete these unused packages *before* it start with your operation (unmarkauto in this case). I think it make sense Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin3pvvpesel6nfqmbd9sn-qtdgia4qlveydp...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?
On Du, 16 ian 11, 01:00:50, Javier Barroso wrote: When you invoke aptitude unmarkauto ... aptitude has all your packages with auto mark, so aptitude will want to delete these unused packages *before* it start with your operation (unmarkauto in this case). I think it make sense Well, '(un)mark' seems to be doing more than just (un)marking packages which is a bit counter-intuitive to me... Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
