On (05/03/04 11:32), Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:27:16AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:49:10PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > | | Usually when I used aptitude in the curses interfaces pressing u to > | | update and then g to install would mark all upgradable packages for > | | upgrade. Now it doesn't work any more. > | | Doing on the command line aptitude dist-upgrade or from them menus mark > | | upgradable does work. > | > | | Any ideas? > | > | I have two systems. After the latest aptitude upgrade, one of them > | exhibited the behavior you describe, but the other one maintained the > | old behavior. I just went through the configurations and found the > | significant difference. Put the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf to get > | the old behavior : > | Aptitude::Auto-Upgrade "true" ; > > I should add the following notes : > > The new default (Auto-Upgrade "false") is not a bad thing because it > allows one to use the curses interface to install or upgrade a single > package without upgrading all packages that have a newer version > available. > > In conjunction with that, a usability issue has been fixed - if a > package has a new version available and Auto-Upgrade is false, then > pressing '+' on the package to upgrade it does -not- change it's > automatic/manual state. The older version would change automatically > installed packages to manually installed in this scenario. If you launch aptitude in interactive mode, ie with no arguments, under Options/Miscellaneous is the option to toggle automatice upgrade or not and a number of other options.... worth a look ;)
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