Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1.1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I'm using pkgsync, which uses aptitude as the underlying mechanism, with mile-long command lines that look something like this: aptitude dist-upgrade foo+ bar+ baz- 'quux&M' (99% are + and &M lines, FWIW.) Sometimes, however, this goes awry, as the conflict resolution mechanism decides to, say, not pull in GNOME because this makes it has to downgrade some other package to the version in testing etc.. Normally, I'd solve this by something along the lines of aptitude -o Aptitude::cmdline::Request-Strictness=10000 install gnome (I really do believe the strictness should be set that high by default, BTW, but that's for another bug report :-) ) but when there's a couple thousand arguments at the command line, this naturally won't help. So, having something that lets me prioritize the individual choices on the command line would be great; something along the lines of aptitude dist-upgrade gnome+//10000 bar+ baz-//500 'quux&M' to give a penalty of 10000 to whatever solution doesn't manage to get GNOME in, 500 to whatever solution doesn't get baz out, etc.. I'm afraid I don't know the aptitude code particularily well, but given that the request strictness is in there already, I hope this isn't something that's impossible to bolt in :-) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16trofastxen Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.44.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.1-1.1 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
