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apt-mark-sync

NAME

apt-mark-sync - synchronize the 'automatically installed' field between package managers

SYNOPSIS

apt-mark-sync READER [all | WRITER ...]

DESCRIPTION

Currently apt, aptitude, debfoster and deborphan each keep their own status database of which packages have been installed manually (i.e. the user requested their installation) and which have been installed automatically (i.e. they were installed as dependencies of manually installed packages).

apt-mark-sync reads the status for each package from one of the databases and writes it to the others. For instance, if you set a package as manually installed in debfoster and run apt-mark-sync debfoster apt aptitude, both apt and aptitude consider it to be manually installed.

Note that it's not recommended to use apt as a sync source, since it's much easier to manage the packages' auto-installed status with debfoster, deborphan or aptitude.

EXAMPLES

aptitude install debfoster; apt-mark-sync aptitude all

Synchronizes from aptitude to apt, debfoster and deborphan.

debfoster; apt-mark-sync debfoster all

Synchronizes from debfoster to apt, aptitude and deborphan.

AUTHOR

Written by Johan Kiviniemi <debian@johan.kiviniemi.name[1]>

RESOURCES

Web site: http://johan.kiviniemi.name/software/apt-mark-sync/

Git branch: git://heh.fi/ion/apt-mark-sync.git

Git browser: http://gitweb.heh.fi/?p=ion/apt-mark-sync.git

SEE ALSO

ams-run(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2008 Johan Kiviniemi

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

NOTES

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debian@johan.kiviniemi.name

mailto:debian@johan.kiviniemi.name