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From: Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: apt: DSelect::Clean "auto" -- deletes on hold, installed package's
*.deb files.
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Hi,
Using dselect, apt is removing the *.debs for sendmail version
8.12.6-6 even though this version is installed and on hold. The
version 8.12.6-7 is the available version according to the
Packages file.
316 jsroot ~ # dselect
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Del sendmail 8.12.6-6 [959kB]
Del sendmail-doc 8.12.6-6 [796kB]
Press enter to continue.
317 jsroot ~ # dpkg -l sendmail\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
hi sendmail 8.12.6-6 A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail
Tra
hi sendmail-doc 8.12.6-6 A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail
Tra
un sendmail-tls <none> (no description available)
pn sendmail-wide <none> (no description available)
318 jsroot ~ # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
// /etc/apt/apt.conf - apt configuration file directives.
//
// See /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz, apt.conf(5) and
// apt-get(8) for details.
// Options for apt-get
APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true"; // -u, --show-upgraded [false]
APT::Get::List-Cleanup "false" ; // "auto-cleanup $vlal" [true]
// Things that effect the APT dselect method
DSelect::Clean "auto"; // always|auto|prompt|never [prompt]
Thanks,
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Jeff Sheinberg
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Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:11:19 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#167381: apt: DSelect::Clean "auto" -- deletes on hold,
installed package's *.deb files.
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> Using dselect, apt is removing the *.debs for sendmail version
> 8.12.6-6 even though this version is installed and on hold. The
> version 8.12.6-7 is the available version according to the
> Packages file.
This is the documented and only sensible behavior. hold/etc have no effect
on the cache cleanup routine.
Jason
