On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:37:30AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 21 Mar 2004, Brian Nelson wrote: > > David Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I did an update in aptitude last night, and it now wants to remove > > > most of my system "because they are no longer used" or "due to > > > unsatisfied dependencies." Since some of those packages are used > > > every day, I must have broken something. I have not let aptitude > > > actually upgrade/uninstall anything yet. I am looking for advise on > > > how to reset aptitude's memory of actions to some safe state. > > > [snip] > > I've noticed something slightly different: aptitude thinks that all my > packages are on hold. I now do a group + to reset this each time. > > AC > Are you using sid? I would say that one of the last versions uploaded by the maintainer switched the deafults. Any way, to get back to the old one, you can either write a line Aptitude::Auto-Upgrade true (Check the syntax before doing it!!!!!!) in /root/.aptitude/conf, or pick options from the menu bar once aptitude has started and select-unselect as needed.
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