On 2009-03-02 17:48 +0100, John A Martin wrote:
> 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.
That's probably the same issue as #466228¹.
> 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.
Here is a patch that Daniel Burrows sent to the debian-user list some
time ago². It works for me and seems to be part of aptitude 0.5.
diff -r aabbcab08cd3 src/cmdline/cmdline_upgrade.cc
--- a/src/cmdline/cmdline_upgrade.cc Sat Aug 09 09:58:13 2008 -0700
+++ b/src/cmdline/cmdline_upgrade.cc Sat Aug 09 16:41:07 2008 -0700
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@
// Reset all the package states.
for(pkgCache::PkgIterator i=(*apt_cache_file)->PkgBegin();
!i.end(); ++i)
- (*apt_cache_file)->mark_keep(i, false, false, NULL);
+ {
+ bool held = (*apt_cache_file)->get_ext_state(i).selection_state == pkgCache::State::Hold;
+ (*apt_cache_file)->mark_keep(i, false, held, NULL);
+ }
}
// Use the apt 'upgrade' algorithm as a fallback against, e.g.,
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466228
² http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/08/msg00692.html
Sven
