[Xastir] Ubuntu-cvsbuild script updated for 10.10

[David A Aitcheson]

This is good!  I find apt-get to be more versatile and understandable in
the gnome environment... now the KDE environment is a totally different
animal and that is where Aptitude is better suited.

Not to introduce "BLOAT" but maybe testing for which window manager is
in play might be a thing to put on the "explore in the future" list.

Here is another item I just noticed...

When getting all the packages on slow or intermittent connections (mine
is a 1.25 Mb/s that usually runs about 1000 b/s) some packages are not
gotten due to time-out errors or connectivity conflicts yet the script
keeps going even in the face of "Err" messages.

I know more "BLOAT" factor.

So is the update at the same URL?.?.?.  Yes it is... as this develops
maybe a version-ing system should be brought into the mix???

Dave - KB3EFS

On 01/04/2011 03:33 PM, Peter Gamache/KC0TFB wrote:
> Noted.  I've switched the script to use apt-get for now, since it's the
> "standard" way to do things in Ubuntu.
> 
> I was unaware that the package databases were not synchronized.  That's
> not made clear but after a little Googling, it looks like this problem has
> bitten others as well.  Apparently the magic incantation needed is
> "aptitude keep-all", but I'm not willing to put that in the script, since
> it would tamper with the package database in ways most users wouldn't
> expect. Safer just to use apt-get, I think...
> 
> Regards,
> -PG
> 
> David A Aitcheson wrote:
>> Peter,
>>
>> On additional observation I see one big difference...
>>
>> You are using "Aptitude" where I use "apt-get" exclusively.
>>
>> They use separate package management databases that until recently could
>> not be synced with each other.
>>
>> That is why the major attempted delete was attempted by the script; also
>> anything that happens in a script is not logged, thus the lack of items
>> in the log.
>>
>> Dave
> 
> 
> 



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