On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 07:42:55PM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> On 18/12/16 15:48, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 01:18:08AM +0100, info at smallinnovations.nl wrote:
> >> On 18-12-16 00:59, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >>> well, the suse complaint is gone now.
> >>>
> >>> aptitude still tries to install a huge set of unwanted packages.
> >>> apt works just fine.
> >>>
> >>> Is there some aptitude-only status file that I could just delete so
> >>> that aptitude has to recostruct it from apt-get's data?
> >>
> >> |aptitude --clean-on-startup
> >>
> >> According to the manpage should clean the cache. I only use apt so i did not
> >> test it.|
> >
> > That cleans out the cache. Which would be good if I had any
> > packages from the suse that someone stuck into the
> > /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. And I might ... and I might even
> > have some of these installed ...
> >
> > But is there somewhere that aptitude remembers what packages it is
> > *supposed* to install? That's probably what I need cleared.
> >
>
> Could you run the original problematic aptitude command with the flags
> --simulate --show-deps (read the man page) and share that so we can get
> a view of what your seeing.
>
> Daniel.

Not what I expected. It appears update will update whether --simulate
is specified or not, and will try to set the lock even in user more
(unsuccessfully, of course). Is this a bug in aptitude or in the man
page?

I will repeat with aptitude upgrade.

hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ aptitude --simulate --show-deps update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: 
Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ su
Password: 
root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# aptitude --simulate --show-deps update
Get: 1 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie InRelease [108 kB]
Get: 2 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates InRelease [119 kB]
Get: 3 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security InRelease [60.8 kB] 
Get: 4 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/main Sources [7,082 kB]    
Get: 5 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/non-free Sources [99.0 kB]           
Get: 6 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/contrib Sources [50.8 kB]            
Get: 7 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/main i386 Packages [6,795 kB]        
Get: 8 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/non-free i386 Packages [80.4 
kB]     
Get: 9 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/contrib i386 Packages [49.5 
kB]      
Get: 10 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/main Sources [174 
kB]      
Get: 11 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/non-free Sources 
[32 B]    
Get: 12 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/contrib Sources 
[1,368 B]  
Get: 13 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/main i386 Packages 
[319 kB]
Get: 14 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/non-free i386 
Packages [32 B]
Get: 15 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-security/contrib i386 
Packages [2,308 B]
Get: 16 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 
kB]      
Get: 17 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 
B]      
Get: 18 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free Sources 
[920 B]    
Get: 19 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/main i386 Packages 
[16.3 kB]
Get: 20 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/contrib i386 
Packages [32 B]
Get: 21 http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free i386 
Packages [516 B]
Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie/contrib Translation-en_CA               
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Translation-en_CA      
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Translation-en_CA
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Translation-en_CA
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Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free 
Translation-en_CA
Ign http://ca.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free Translation-en
Fetched 15.0 MB in 38s (389 kB/s)

root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik#



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