Making apt-get powercut-proof

[Milosz Derezynski]

It could work if after the package is skipped apt recreates the dependency
list; this might be bad to oversee though (especially without a GUI),
however adding a printout a la "These packages were originally meant to be
installed: $PACKAGES Since package $PACKAGE was removed after the update
began, they are NOT going to be installed [Y/n]" where n would retry with
the same package included again. One could even think of a
skip-broken-packages option. Since non-installed packages remain in the
dpkg/apt system as to-be-upgraded there is no real problem (if apt would
additionally save the status then in update-manager they could be shown as
unchecked with a hint that they failed to install).


2008/5/5 Andrew Sayers <andrew-ubuntu-devel at pileofstuff.org>:

> ffm at cluenet.org wrote:
> >
> > Another different but related case is when a package is broken/frozen
> and
> > the user is not able to continue (phpbb2-conf-mysql, I'm looking at
> you!),
> > it would be nice to have a "skip" button for packages that seem to be
> > stuck.
> >
> > -FFM
> >
>
> "Skip package" wouldn't really work, because later packages might rely
> on the package that's hung.  On the other hand, I should imagine it's
> possible to kill the process, tidy up any packages that have already
> been installed, then give the user the option to remove the offending
> package (and any dependencies) before retrying.
>
> Of course, this all goes way beyond my meagre shell-scripting abilities,
> so now we're just developing a feature request to present to someone else.
>
>        - Andrew Sayers
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