Hi,

I have a weird problem where my google foo is failing me (although I
guess it has been seen more than once before).

Long story short, I have a configuration management software (puppet)
that purges selective packages on each run (among others os-prober). It
is (by default) using apt for this task.

When I execute aptitude interactively on one of those handled servers
after that, it always wants to reinstall os-prober. It does not show so
in the listing, but it says 'Will use 193 kB of disk space' and shows
os-prober in the 'Packages to be installed' block after pressing 'g'. I
have to deselect it there manually with '-' or ':' to get rid of it
forever.

It seems to be related with the Apt::Install-Recommends setting, if I
set that to False the behaviour is gone. But I like recommends for now.

It is easily reproducible on both Squeeze and Wheezy:

# apt-get install os-prober
# aptitude
(see that there is nothing to do)
# apt-get purge os-prober
# aptitude
(see that it wants to install os-prober)

I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on
aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or
works-as-designed?

Thanks,
Bernhard


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On Mi, 09 nov 11, 21:54:26, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>
> I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on
> aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or
> works-as-designed?

I can only confirm your findings, still looking for a workaround.

Regards,
Andrei
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On 2011-11-10 09:35 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Mi, 09 nov 11, 21:54:26, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on
>> aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or
>> works-as-designed?

I have the feeling it might have the same cause as bug #570492¹, but
without studying the code it's hard to tell.

> I can only confirm your findings, still looking for a workaround.

Don't use apt-get? Might be acceptable for now, but in a
multiarch-enabled system aptitude is too broken in my experience. :-(

Sven


http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570492


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Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

>> I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on
>> aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or
>> works-as-designed?
> I can only confirm your findings, still looking for a workaround.

I have reported bug #648313 for this.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648313

Best Regards,
Bernhard


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