[483] in athena10
Re: Versioning in Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 4 19:21:27 2008
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:20:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <200809042320.m84NKeZR027080@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: athena10@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <1220548854.12433.376.camel@error-messages.mit.edu>
> I think the information we want to give is the output of "aptitude
> --simulate -y full-upgrade". However, I think we want to wrap that
> in a script which:
> 1. Runs "aptitude update" first to ensure that the local cache is
> up to date, and
Of course, since athinfod runs as nobody, we can't do that.
I looked for an aptitude option to download new cache files into a
temporary location for the purpose of a simulated upgrade, but didn't
find it. So the best I can do is display the output of full-upgrade
based on what is currently in the apt cache.
