Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> writes: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:21:14AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Can anyone explain what the final line from an >> >> aptitude update (After setting sources.list to "testing") >> >> aptitude full-upgrade >> >> This very last line from aptitude seems like its probably full of >> meaning, but not much use if I cannot find out what the heck it means. >> >> It apparently sums up what happened during the last 1hr+ of scrolling >> and scrolling output. >> ,---- >> | Current status: 0 updates [-1029], 37263 new [-11] >> `---- > > This string appears to be generated around > http://sources.debian.net/src/aptitude/0.6.8-1/src/cmdline/cmdline_util.cc?hl=376#L376 > > That appears to indicate that there are (in your example) 0 updates > and this has gone down by 1029. In other words, at the start of the > aptitude run there were 1029 packages to update and now there are 0. > Additionally, at the start of the run there were 32774 new packages > and now there are 32763 - probably some were installed as > dependencies of the update.
Well thanks for digging up such a good answer. >> Some seem to be awfully high numbers if the are tracking pkgs, >> nnless the numbers are an accounting of each and every FILE during >> this upgrade. > > Not really. 32000 packages sounds about right for the whole of > debian. I can't find an official number at the moment... Ah, here we > are http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian says "over 37500" So those 30000+ numbers are referring to the number of pkgs in the whole debian repo? That is, the number of pkgs that could potentially be installed? aptitude shows 44600 I guess that is counting virtual, meta and whatever else is not actual pkgs on a repo. I guess I'm having a bit of trouble seeing why that is something I need to know... In the context of a `Current Status' report following a `full-upgrade', it would seem more reasonable to mention how many pkgs are on my system before and after... dpkg --get-selections shows 2794 actually installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wqo0uwkh....@newsguy.com
