Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1 Severity: important It appears that 'hold' fails to cause the packages given on the command line to be ignored by future safe-upgrade.
# aptitude -P hold nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-686 nvidia-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
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0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
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Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
athene:/home/jam# aptitude -P safe-upgradeReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
foomatic-db{a} java-gcj-compat{a} java-gcj-compat-headless{a}
openclipart-openoffice.org openclipart-png{a} openoffice.org
openoffice.org-base{a} openoffice.org-base-core{a} openoffice.org-calc{a}
openoffice.org-common{a} openoffice.org-core{a} openoffice.org-draw{a}
openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-binfilter{a}
openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk{a} openoffice.org-help-en-us
openoffice.org-impress{a} openoffice.org-math{a}
openoffice.org-officebean{a} openoffice.org-style-andromeda
openoffice.org-style-crystal{a} openoffice.org-style-tango{a}
openoffice.org-writer{a} python-uno{a} shared-mime-info{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-686 nvidia-kernel-source
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
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-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Nov 20 2008 04:02:44
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090228
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f92000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7ec1000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e83000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e7d000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7db9000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7cf5000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b9c000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b87000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b6e000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a80000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a5a000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a4d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78eb000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78e7000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78e3000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f93000)
$TERM not set.
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.26 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090228-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.10-2 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-do 0.4.11.11-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-per 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
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