Debian Bug report logs - #16217
dselect update action doesn't clear package list

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <change@nas.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dselect update action doesn't clear package list

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:57:22 -0800

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.19

dselect has command line actions which allow it to automatically select
the corresponding commands from the main menu. The 'update' action should
be more specific and permit the user to specify whether to clear the list
of available packages or not. Otherwise dselect hangs at this prompt. 

Perhaps the 'update' action could be split into 'update_clear' and
'update_noclear' actions

Thanks!

Message #10 received at 16217-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

To: 1685-done@bugs.debian.org, 16217-done@bugs.debian.org, 10263-done@bugs.debian.org, 4074-done@bugs.debian.org, 1037-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: some dpkg bug maintainence with permission from wichert

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 02:14:10 -0400

1685: dpkg-split command line parsing.
  My take on this, the options expected aren't in a compatible format,
  so it can't be made GNU style. Also the man page shows that the
  complained about format is expected. IMO, if it's documented as such,
  then it should be acceptible. GNU is not the endall argument format.

16217: prompting for clearing avail on updates in dselect
  dselect doesn't seem to do this anymore

10263: segfaults on upgrade
  Very old bug concerning libc5->libc6 upgrades. I don't think we have any
  way to really reproduce it, plus the reports show that the cause was
  possibly found from some dependencies, but the original poster never
  responded back.

4074: conffile's left behind
  Not a current problem with dpkg it seems

1037: dselect help screen
  Ian said he would fix this in the report when he released the C version of
  dpkg, that seems to have occured (bug report is vague on what the actual bug
  is, and attempts at clarifying have failed).


Ben....more to come

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