On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:34:55AM -0700, Gandalf Parker wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Henry House wrote: > > >>Is there a way in Aptitude or dselect to clear all holds on updates? > >> > >>A previous manager put a lock on just about everything prefering to do it > >>himself, and I want to go back to using aptitude recommends. > > > >I think something like > > > > aptitude -o 'APT::Ignore-Hold = true' upgrade > > > >will do the trick. (Warning: untested.) > > > >There is also an --ignore-holds flag in apt-get (but you specified that > >you want to use aptitude). > > Apt would be fine also if there is a way to turn off all of the holds. Or > maybe there is a text file someplace that stores it and I can do a SED > command on. I want to go back to the original settings and let the catalog > decide what should or shouldnt be upgraded. >
There is also the method involving dpkg, ie: # dpkg --get-selections and # dpkg --set-selections You can dump the former to a file, sed it, then feed it into the latter. I imagine aptitude uses the same holds as apt as dpkg, but I don't know for sure. -Gabe _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
