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-rw-r--r--DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py3
-rw-r--r--DistUpgrade/TODO13
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py b/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py
index c8e1e9a1..2417a364 100644
--- a/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py
+++ b/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ class MyCache(apt.Cache):
if pkg.markedDelete and self._inRemovalBlacklist(pkg.name):
logging.debug("The package '%s' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist", pkg.name)
return False
+ if pkg.markedDelete and pkg._pkg.Essential == True:
+ logging.debug("The package '%s' is marked for removal but it's a ESSENTIAL package", pkg.name)
+ return False
return True
def _installMetaPkgs(self, view):
diff --git a/DistUpgrade/TODO b/DistUpgrade/TODO
index 018b356b..ab516769 100644
--- a/DistUpgrade/TODO
+++ b/DistUpgrade/TODO
@@ -17,3 +17,16 @@ general
- check authentication and don't upgrade anything that is not
authenticated (maybe just comment unauthenticated stuff out?)
+
+
+Robustness:
+-----------
+- automatically comment out entires in the sources.list that fail to
+ fetch.
+ Trouble: apt doesn't provide a method to map from a line in th
+ sources.list to the indexFile and python-apt dosn't proivde a way to
+ get all the metaIndexes in sources.list, nor a way to get the
+ pkgIndexFiles from the metaIndexes (metaIndex is not available in
+ python-apt at all)
+
+ \ No newline at end of file