On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:59:45PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi Daniel, > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:32:04AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > > In all cases it seems unlikely to affect aptitude. If it is capable to > > > > handle dependencies for prerm's in the circular loop case, it is most > > > > probably capable to do the same in simpler cases like this one. > > > > I don't know if it's true that aptitude does this, or if some other > > > difference between apt-get and aptitude means that aptitude tends to be > > > "luckier". > > > While I'm not opposed to people having warm happy fuzzy feelings about > > aptitude, I know of no fundamental reason that it should be immune to > > this problem. The issue (as far as I understand it) is the way in which > > dpkg is invoked, which aptitude completely punts to apt. > > Thanks for the input. > > Do aptitude and apt pass the same number of packages to dpkg at a time? > Could that be a difference here? (That was the sort of difference I was > thinking of in terms of aptitude getting "lucky".)
Essentially the way it works is: aptitude creates a "fetcher" object, fills it with the current set of selected packages, then tells it to go download and install them. apt-get does the same thing. TBH, I don't see why aptitude should work here where apt-get doesn't, unless they actually install different sets of packages. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
