On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:46:50PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Eugene V. Lyubimkin] > > Second, why the APT's ability to upgrade is broken under these > > conditions? Unless I'm missing something, the upgrade cannot be > > started in the middle of another upgrade [1].
> > [1] If we count the situation for resuming broken upgrade, there is a > > some chance you'll have to call dpkg manually or some hacks > > to proceed anyway. > Not always. There are states dpkg goes through that 'apt-get install' > can "recover" from on its own. You don't always have to go to dpkg. > Also, what if apt wants to call one of its auxilliary binaries during > the install/upgrade? I imagine it's not implemented that way _now_, > but a Pre-Depends would make such a thing a lot safer if they want it. > (Same is true if they want to dlopen a library during the install, but > that's somewhat less likely.) "We might some day later change the way apt works for upgrades" is not an argument for adding a pre-dependency now. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110428154120.ga12...@virgil.dodds.net
