Steve Lamb([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then > > Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my "normal > tools" is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be using > dselect? dpkg I can see when installing third party applications > (transgaming, for example) but that's mostly confined to "dpkg -i".
Steve, when you place a package on hold, with aptitude, does it show the package is on hold? It doesn't do that, with a package that isn't installed (p tetex), here with apitiude version 0.2.15.8, but dpkg -l tetex* does show its on hold VT1 root-3-Buddy:~# dpkg -l tetex* 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 | |||+++-================================== | |||un tetex <none> | |||(no description available) | |||hn tetex-base <none> | |||(no description available) | ||| | |||hn tetex-bin <none> | |||(no description available) | |||un tetex-brev <none> | |||(no description available) | |||un tetex-dev <none> | |||(no description available) | |||un tetex-doc <none> | |||(no description available) | |||un tetex-eurosym <none> | |||(no description available) | ||| | |||hn tetex-extra <none> | |||(no description available) | ||| I don't see why aptitude should show different status information then dpkg does. Thats just one of many odd things I find when I use aptitude. Wayne -- MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software is Only for Fools and Teenagers. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
