Michael Lange wrote on 10/05/16 20:42: > Hi, > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 11:19:52 +0200 > Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > > (...) >> So my question is: is there a way to include updates to packages put on >> hold to the output of "aptitude full-upgrade" as in apt-get, that I have >> been missing, or is this simply not possible? > > I looked again at man aptitude and according to the paragraphs about > "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade": > > "If no <package>s are listed on the command line, aptitude will attempt > to upgrade every package that can be upgraded. Otherwise, aptitude will > attempt to upgrade only the packages which it is instructed to > upgrade." > > I would have expected, that passing the packages put on hold as > arguments, as in > > aptitude full-upgrade `aptitude -q=2 -F %p search ~U` > > would only try to upgrade these. However when I tried a dry-run on my > almost-up-to-date Jessie box here, with a few holds (hplip and friends) I > got the following surprising result (command lines wrapped by sylpheed): > > The list of package holds: > > # aptitude -q=2 -F %p search ~ahold > hplip > > > hplip-data > > > hplip-gui > > > libhpmud0 > > > libsane-hpaio > > > printer-driver-hpcups > > Available updates that would be installed by default: > > # aptitude -y -v -s full-upgrade | /bin/grep ^Inst | /usr/bin/cut -d\ > -f2 | /usr/bin/sort > libdatetime-timezone-perl > tzdata > tzdata-java > > # aptitude -y -v -s full-upgrade `aptitude -q=2 -F %p search ~U` > | /bin/grep ^Inst | /usr/bin/cut -d\ -f2 | /usr/bin/sort > hplip > hplip-data > hplip-gui > libdatetime-timezone-perl > libhpmud0 > libsane-hpaio > printer-driver-hpcups > tzdata > tzdata-java > > tzdata and friends obviously don't have anything to do with hplip, so it > looks like the man page isn't telling the truth. > Can anyone confirm this behaviour, did I misinterpret the manpage, or why > does this happen? > Right now this looks like it is exactly what I have been asking for in > the first post, but the manpage seems to contradict... >
You used '~U' in the first and the last command, not '~ahold'. This last command could also be written shorter: aptitude -y -v -s full-upgrade '~U' | ... There's also the switch '--remove-user-tag': aptitude -y -v -s --remove-tag hold full-upgrade | ... Does this what you want? Regards, jvp.
