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Foreign packages downgrader provides no record of downgraded packages #92

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LinuxOnTheDesktop opened this issue Jul 28, 2024 · 1 comment

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LinuxOnTheDesktop commented Jul 28, 2024

Thank you for the upgrade tool.

That tool wanted to downgrade foreign packages. Yet, it seemed to offer no way of generating a record of downgraded packages. And one might well wants such a record.

I resorted to a screenshot - or rather to three screenshots. For, at least on the computer I was using (which meets Cinnamon's recommended screen size) I could not even get the list of downgraded packages to display in such a way that a single screenshot would do the job. Here is the first of those screenshots:

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Cf. #93.

The following too throws slightly. Upon pressing 'fix', one sees a screen that says, for some time, 'Looking for foreign packages'. Did the program try to downgrade? That is, is it now re-checking? Ah: judging by the terminal output, it is. Or rather: judging by that output, right now the downgrade is in progress. And, now, the terminal is doing an 'orphan' check - except that, actually, the GUI window wants my attention (though I had to bring up that window in order to determine that fact).

EDIT: Should mintupgrade not pin the terminal window to one side of the screen, and the GUI to the other?

@LinuxOnTheDesktop LinuxOnTheDesktop changed the title Foreign packages downgrader gives no way of Foreign packages downgrader provides no record of downgraded packages Jul 28, 2024
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Ah: in the actual as against simulation phase, the terminal prints a list of downgraded packages. Still: (1) in the simulation phase, one does not know that that list will occur; (2) one still has to capture the take the relevant output from the terminal.

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