On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Now that Sarge has gone stable and I have done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > I am left with only a few packages held back. These are all, I believe, > due to the fact that I have put them on 'hold.' I don't think that any > of them are held back for other reasons. I have more packages on hold > than are held back, so I assume that the others are current, even though > I have them on hold. > > Looking through the output of 'dpkg --get-selections', however, see a > lot of packages with a status of 'deinstall.' Are these packages that > should be uninstalled, but for some reason are being kept? I have not > noticed this status before, and am curious about it.
It means they are marked for deinstallation in the dselect database (/var/lib/dpkg/status). "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't pay attention to that database; you'd need to use "apt-get dselect-upgrade" or just run dselect for any of those to be noticed. -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
