Hi Mark Hobley, 2010/2/28 Mark Hobley <markhob...@yahoo.co.uk>: > I would first select: > > 1: (U)pdate list of available packages > > followed by: > > 3: (I)nstall and upgrade wanted packages > > This would keep adding those packages to the list.
I never used dselect, but isn't that a feature? I mean, if you have selected the packages for installation they are selected until you undo the selection…? (or install the selection of course) You can list the selected status with e.g. dpkg -l pkg1 pkg2… As the header will try to tell you is the first character the status you selected and the second the status the package currently has on the system, e.g. (truncated for readability) $ dpkg -l apt apt-doc ii apt in apt-doc tells me that i have apt installed and i also want it to be installed and that i want to have apt-doc installed while it is currentlyand apt not installed. I guess all (or at least a few) packages that dselect wants to install all the time have the status "in". (A not selected and not installed package has the status "un" = unkown & not installed) The alternative would be a bug in apt i currently can't find which installs packages because they are a dependency of another package apt want to install but changed his mind later on because of some problems - i currently doubt it as dselect seems to do the same dependency checking apt would do… Btw: Which APT version we are talking about? Or in which state is your system in general? The preferences indicate that you don't follow a specific release, but cherrypick updates - automatically apt will never suggest a single package update as all preferences are below 100… Best regards, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
