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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 05/10/2025 16:50, Mark Millard wrote: > … > > I see a mix of: > > QUOTE > -U, --no-repo-update > Suppress the automatic update of the local copy of the > repository catalogue from remote. Automatic repository > catalogue updates are only attempted when the effective UID > of the process has write access to the package database. > Otherwise they are silently ignored. > END QUOTE > > and: > > QUOTE > 32 MiB to be downloaded. > END QUOTE > > So the repository catalog would not have been updated > for the download if the download had happened? I had previously combined -F and -y, repeatedly, to fetch all packages. It's true that proceeding to upgrade (with -U) sometimes results in an unexpected fetch of more packages, with consequent changes to things such as the number of packages to be removed. These moving goalposts have taught me to be extremely wary of -y for upgrades. In this case, it's _possible_ that I inadvertently allowed a repo update some time between the -Fy and the installation. (I spent more than a day attempting to upgrade a single system. Tiredness may have led to carelessness.) > It leads me to wonder if it ended up in a status of > "can not do as requested overall" but just did not > explicitly report anything about that status. The nothingness is extraordinary. I could make a debug run (I do have a VirtualBox snapshot of the affected guest), but it's not a priority. Thanks --------------rhqbCCXcfS0n2EzrQYpSE2OP Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
On 05/10/2025 16:50, Mark Millard wrote:
…

I see a mix of:

QUOTE
     -U, --no-repo-update
                 Suppress the automatic update of the local copy of the
                 repository catalogue from remote.  Automatic repository
                 catalogue updates are only attempted when the effective UID
                 of the process has write access to the package database.
                 Otherwise they are silently ignored.
END QUOTE

and:

QUOTE
32 MiB to be downloaded.
END QUOTE

So the repository catalog would not have been updated
for the download if the download had happened?


I had previously combined -F and -y, repeatedly, to fetch all packages. 

It's true that proceeding to upgrade (with -U) sometimes results in an unexpected fetch of more packages, with consequent changes to things such as the number of packages to be removed. These moving goalposts have taught me to be extremely wary of -y for upgrades. 

In this case, it's _possible_ that I inadvertently allowed a repo update some time between the -Fy and the installation. (I spent more than a day attempting to upgrade a single system. Tiredness may have led to carelessness.)


It leads me to wonder if it ended up in a status of
"can not do as requested overall" but just did not
explicitly report anything about that status.


The nothingness is extraordinary. 

I could make a debug run (I do have a VirtualBox snapshot of the affected guest), but it's not a priority. 

Thanks

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