Rudder

I am a little blocked on this, by default CFE3 uses aptitude if present on the system with a fallback on apt-get, however the only options I found only impact apt-get:

// auto-remove breaks on meta packages
APT::Get::AutomaticRemove "0";
APT::Get::HideAutoRemove "1";

Cf.: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/how-do-i-get-rid-of-autoremove-717521/

What should we do ? either force apt-get or try to find a workaround ?

Jon, maybe you could bring some insight here ?

Matthieu CERDA wrote:

I am a little blocked on this, by default CFE3 uses aptitude if present on the system with a fallback on apt-get, however the only options I found only impact apt-get:

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Cf.: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/how-do-i-get-rid-of-autoremove-717521/

What should we do ? either force apt-get or try to find a workaround ?

The equivalent option for aptitude is Aptitude::Delete-Unused, see http://media.fossclub.de/aptitude/html/en/ch02s05s05.html#configDelete-Unused.

I have tested adding -o "Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false" to aptitude's command line options, and it does indeed not remove any packages other than those explicitly requested (ie, aptitude remove bla will remove bla, but not any automatically installed dependencies).

I agree that this is a good way to avoid this bug, and it is much safer for Rudder not to use this automatic mechanism. As the aptitude manual itself states "As with any automatic process, there is a potential for things to go haywire." (see http://media.fossclub.de/aptitude/html/en/ch02s02s06.html). Please implement.

Applied in changeset commit:1396b5247e32a5209ae4b241b9f11a0edbc996f9.

Looks good to me!