tags 250120 + wontfix
thanks
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:56:39PM +0200, Daniel Skarda <0rfelyus@hobitin.ucw.cz> was heard to say:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.14.1-2
Severity: normal
Due to disk failure I had to reinstall many packages. I marked packages with 'r'
and start reinstallation. There were some errors during reinstallation, so apt
reinstalled some packages successfully, some of packages are not configured and
some are not unpacked at all.
The problem is that now, after I returned back to aptitude screen, I can not
distinguish between reinstalled packages and not yet processed packages, because
aptitude clears 'r' flags from all packages (which is quite frustrating, since
there were _many_ packages to reinstalll).
See #167236, #121346. It's impossible to tell whether a
reinstallation succeeded, both permanent reinstalls and impermanent
reinstalls will cause problems sometimes, and permanent reinstalls
seem to generally be much more annoying.
Someday, when dpkg can tell apt that a particular package installation
succeeded and apt uses the information, this bug can be closed.