Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.0-2 Severity: important Hi, I'm using aptitude on a sarge installation and ran into an unusual snag. Somewhere along the way I used aptitude to install drupal. Now for one reason or another drupal didn't install properly and aptitude didn't notify me of the fact.
What had happened, apparently, was that drupal depends on makepasswd which wasn't installed for some reason. Since I was just planning on playing around with drupal I never noticed any problems. The real problem is that aptitude didn't report the error and then whenever I ran aptitude update && aptitude upgrade I was informed there were no new packages to install or fix, etc. which lead to security updates not getting installed! Now in my case I only missed a few since when the openssl security update came out I knew for a fact that I had that installed and that it would need to be updated so I was puzzled when it didn't. After aptitude insisted there was nothing to install I did an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade which gave me the error about things being in an inconsistent state and to run apt-get -f install (which installed makepasswd). After this was done aptitude updated properly and detected the security packages that needed to be installed. This is pretty serious since it can lead to systems not getting security updates and leaving users with a false sense of security. I'm not sure how the situation came about in the first place, but surely aptitude should have returned an error at some point in the above process. Thanks. Todd -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.42.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-3 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.16-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
