Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-07 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jul 6, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:10, Alec Berryman wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400: Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or whatever other software) to check if there any newer versio

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 16:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote: > >> apt-get install privoxy ?? > > > > This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I > > want to upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote: > >> apt-get install privoxy ?? > > This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I want to > upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade the privox

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Consider the following example > > The dependencies on privoxy are given by > > $apt-cache depends privoxy > privoxy > Depends: libc6 > Depends: libpcre3 > Depends: logrotate > Depends: adduser > Recommends: doc-base > > Now whe

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:11:10PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > At this point I would like the prompt to wait for the user's input. But I > dont > know why apt-get is Aborting it. I believe it has something to do with the character used to separate the items that xargs is processing. Whic

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 14:15, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > above command | xargs -i apt-get install '{}' > The -i option is not documented in the xargs man page. The -I is documented but I do not know whether they are the same. Anyway I changed the xargs command to -n1. So now the command looks

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:19:28PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > The last tr is useful so that I can do > > sudo apt-get install `above command here` > > Other wise I do not know how to pass the result to apt-get without any fancy > scripts. You can take a list of packages and do for i i

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:23, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:18:45PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Nope. apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade wants to upgrade a slew of other > > packages besides what I want. I dont want to upgrade the entire system. I > > just want to up

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote: > > apt-get install privoxy ?? This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I want to upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade the privoxy no matter whether it requires it or not. Perhaps privoxy is not such a good exa

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > apt-get install privoxy ?? Oh, sorry; I was reading the original poster to be saying that he wanted to upgrade just the dependencies. Yes, apt-get install privoxy is the easy way to do this. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:18:45PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Nope. apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade wants to upgrade a slew of other > packages besides what I want. I dont want to upgrade the entire system. I > just want to upgrade privoxy and its dependencies. 1) Install apt-rdepends.

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Wackojacko
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:10, Alec Berryman wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400: Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the dependencies and updat

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:10, Alec Berryman wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400: > > Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or > > whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the > > dependencies and update those as well.

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Alec Berryman
Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400: > Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or > whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the > dependencies and update those as well. Is this possible? If so, How? 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-

Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Conside the following example The dependencies on privoxy are given by $apt-cache depends privoxy privoxy Depends: libc6 Depends: libpcre3 Depends: logrotate Depends: adduser Recommends: doc-base Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or whatever other