On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:46:28PM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:20:25PM +0000, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > ----- Forwarded message from Hugh Saunders <hugh@mjr.org> ----- > > > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:57:15 +0000 > > From: Hugh Saunders <hugh@mjr.org> > > To: iain d broadfoot <ibroadfo@cis.strath.ac.uk> > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i > > X-SpamProbe: > > Subject: Re: Quick aptitude question... > > X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean > > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:22:46PM +0000, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > > * ZephyrQ (ZephyrQ@att.net) wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm trying to take better control of my installation, and fired up > > > > aptitude. I inadvertently tried to do an upgrade (to woody rc1) a while > > > > back and am trying to cancel it. Is there a way to 'wipe' queued > > > > actions and/or reset aptitude? > > > > > > > > > > when you hit 'g' to get the 'do this' screen, select the lines that say > > > 'install' or 'upgrade' or similar, and hit '_' to purge, '-' to remove > > > or '=' to hold(hold means keep installed, don't upgrade) - this should > > > cut down the number of things on the todo list. > > if youve told aptitude you want to upgrade a package, but havent > > actually done the upgrade, how do you then > > reset its status to installed -its a pain to do hold as that break > > dependencies when you upgrade other things. > > > > hugh > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > i'm not sure you can, using aptitude - it likes upgrading automatically. > > have a look in the options to see if you can turn off that behaviour. > > > > at the same time, why do you want to avoid woodyr1 exactly? > not avoiding woodyr1 but i dont have fast connection [56k dialup] so i > want to aptiutude to install what i select and its dependencies [nothing > else- bit like apt-get install -which is what i end up using!] but as > ive fiddled about with it, aptitude has a list of about 150 packages it > wants to upgrade/install so everytime i use aptitude i use the shift-i > to only install what i want. [if want to upgrade, do apt-get update && > apt-get upgrade -y and leve it over night!] # aptitude install bleh -rob
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