question on "smart upgrade --dump"

[Werner Flamme]

Gustavo Niemeyer schrieb am 29.01.2007 15:53:
> 
>> I picked all of them. (...)
> 
> No, you didn't. You didn't pick any packages that were listed as
> downgrades.

Yes, that is where my not-understanding begins.

I thought it made no difference how I install packages, when the installed 
packages after the installation were the same, independent of the method. I 
did not see that "smart upgrade" has to downgrade 100+ packages. And I 
don't want to try a "smart upgrade" that downgrades 100+ packages and to 
upgrade them manually afterwards. *For me* the downgrade is unneeded, since 
I can use "smart install" without the need to downgrade one package.

> 
> You have all the hints to understand what's going on in the
> thread history.  Unfortunately, I don't have the time or energy
> to continue explaining that to you.
> 
> "upgrade --dump" is incorrect. It will be fixed for the next version.
> 

Thank you for the work you invested to make me understand. Obviously, I am 
too thick to understand you :-( I am really sorry.

I sure wouldn' bother you on this mailing list (I read here, and I already 
learned a lot) when apt worked, but apt's running out of memory (Dynamic 
MMap ran out of room). The usual way to set APT::Cache-Limit "1000000"; (or 
other values) does not work this time - dependent on the value it stops 
sooner or later, but it always stops :-(

Thanks again
Werner

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