On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Francesco Potorti` <[email protected]> was heard to say: > >> No message tells anything about holding. And in fact, if I look at the > >> package list with dselect, the storebackup package is not held. > > > > Does "aptitude show storebackup" show it being held? > > No. It does not show it as held even when setting the held status with > dselect.
OK, it looks like this is a bug in the 0.4 series: it's not displaying the hold status of packages. In 0.5 I get Package: mutt State: installed [held] which is more useful. > >Does it get upgraded by "aptitude safe-upgrade"? > > I do not know. This is a package that I do not want to paly with, as it > is important to me. You can run "aptitude -s safe-upgrade", even as non-root, and see what it does. > Can't you reproduce what I observe? No, "hold" works as expected, aside from the bug I mentioned above. Held packages are shown as held in the aptitude curses UI and in "aptitude search", and they don't get upgraded by upgrade commands. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
