Hi,
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Guillem Jover wrote:
With multiarch, non-installed selections w/o an architecture, do not
make sense, in addition there's no guarantee they match any entry
from the available file and the db could end up with a selection that
could not be addressed from the command
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 08:12:08 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
In addition selections for packages unknown to dpkg will not be
accepted anymore.
I'm not sure I understand this correctly but I'm afraid that this is a
serious regression.
It has always been possible to sort-of duplicate a
Guillem Jover writes (Re: Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2
upload):
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 08:12:08 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
It has always been possible to sort-of duplicate a system by doing
dpkg --get-selections file on one computer and running dpkg
--set
Hi,
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 09:35:39 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
I'll be uploading dpkg 1.16.2 targeting unstable, by the end of
this weekend or beginning of next week the latest (after some final
polishing).
Unfortunately I found some issues with the selection handling and with
dselect and
Hi, I like dselect, dpkg, and aptitude. I have a request. aptitude should
import and export
/var/lib/dpkg/status
At least when asked. Right now aptitude takes awkwardly and but doesn't give
back.
It's not just private selections. Private methods and worse pivate status make
TL;DR: aptitude does keep dpkg/status and apt/extended_states
up-to-date with the *current* state of a package, just like other
software. Please do not grok pkgstates to determine if something is
installed, etc.
On 18 March 2012 23:16, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
johnandsa...@cox.net
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:16:06AM -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
wrote:
Hi, I like dselect, dpkg, and aptitude. I have a request. aptitude should
import and export
/var/lib/dpkg/status
At least when asked. Right now aptitude takes awkwardly and but doesn't give
Hi,
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Sven Joachim wrote:
Here is a patch adding two missing newlines on output:
Thanks.
Note that libc-bin:amd64 is actually purged, however it remains in the
status file (note that the Multi-Arch: foreign field is missing):
Ok, fixed that as well by ignoring
Hello,
For people who have been playing with multiarch and are scared by
Guillem's (uncoordinated) announce, I have written a small script
to detect whether you have been affected by one of the theoretical
problems that Guillem diagnosed (you only need libdpkg-perl and perl).
If it outputs
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
If it outputs nothing on your system, then you're fine. Otherwise
it should give you some instructions to follow to bring it back to a
coherent state.
There was a bug in the script. An updated version is attached.
Note that it will list your foreign
Hi
I got the following results:
root@ash:~# dpkg --version
Debian `dpkg' package management program version 1.16.1.2 (amd64).
root@ash:~# perl ~david/tmp/dpkg-chk.pl | tail
PROBLEM: gcc-4.4-base:amd64 has missing info files
SOLUTION: apt-get --reinstall install gcc-4.4-base:amd64
PROBLEM:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, David Greaves wrote:
I got the following results:
root@ash:~# dpkg --version
Debian `dpkg' package management program version 1.16.1.2 (amd64).
The script is meant for people who are using a version of dpkg with
multiarch support. You're using the current sid version
On 2012-03-14 11:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
If it outputs nothing on your system, then you're fine. Otherwise
it should give you some instructions to follow to bring it back to a
coherent state.
There was a bug in the script. An updated
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