On Lu, 16 iul 12, 20:32:07, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a rather acute problem with aptitude. I am tracking wheezy and > very often, the resolver wants to remove half my system rather than > upgrade a couple of packages. These packages are not held back (aptitude > calls them "kept back"), even though they may be manually installed. Is > there a way to make aptitude prefer upgrading packages (staying in the > target distribution of course and only as needed) rather than remove them? > > Upgrading these two packages by hand smooths everything out, so there's > no reason aptitude should not propose this first.
This looks like #570377. > I am looking for two things: a) Increase the points a solution receives > for upgrading packages, to be at least more than the points for removing > them, and b) decrease the penalty for removing user-installed packages. Have a look at in the aptitude's user manual (package aptitude-doc-en), chapter 2, section "Resolving package dependencies"., subsection "Costs in the interactive dependency resolver". Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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