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aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by Utumno on Wed 8 Oct 2008 at 09:38

Tags: aptitude

I host a small phpbb2-powered forum. It is modified by myself (I remember 2 years ago I spent some 2 days applying various source-based patches so that for instance one can send files to the forum, modifying the theme and translating various icons, replacing phpbb's default MSN with Gadu-Gadu which is a instant messanging system popular in Poland ). So I have put the 3 phpbb2-* packages on hold and apt-get has always honored that. Today however I decided to finally switch to aptitude:

aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade

and... turns out aptitude does not honor apt-get's 'hold' status. It merrily went on and upgraded my phpbb2 and all my changes are gone.

Blindly trying 'aptitude rollback phpbb2' resulted in

This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Now what? Any advice?

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Re: aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by Anonymous (195.28.xx.xx) on Wed 8 Oct 2008 at 10:47

copy your changes from backup ;-)

aaah, you don't have any backup? for over two years? ;-(

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Re: aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by Utumno (60.248.xx.xx) on Wed 8 Oct 2008 at 11:44
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oh wait, that reminds me... I do have a backup :)
Honestly, I didn't need it so long I almost forgot about it!

But, the original Q still stands: what if i didn't have one?

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Re: aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by Anonymous (195.28.xx.xx) on Wed 8 Oct 2008 at 13:44

I used dselect for marking "hold" packages and now I'm using aptitude and I have no problem with such packages. Anyway, aptitude needs confirmation from user, so who confirm aptitude's action? I think, aptitude works fine. Maybe you made some mistake. Can you check status before 'action' and after 'action' or reproduce 'action'?

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Re: aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by i5513 (213.227.xx.xx) on Fri 10 Oct 2008 at 22:57
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don't you have your older packages ??

dpkg -i ...

aptitude --> '=' command to hold

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Re: aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by Anonymous (60.248.xx.xx) on Wed 15 Oct 2008 at 09:16

What older packages? Those were *source based* patches to an existing (installed!) phpbb2

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Re: aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by i5513 (89.140.xx.xx) on Wed 15 Oct 2008 at 10:50
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Then ... this is one issue where debian packaging rocks (you could download source package modify it and repack your package).

I'm sorry for your data

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Re: aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by september (89.113.xx.xx) on Tue 14 Oct 2008 at 15:48
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This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers <- lol =)

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Re: aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers

Posted by Anonymous (83.12.xx.xx) on Sat 25 Oct 2008 at 04:22

Someone didn't try apt-get moo

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