Strange aptitude behavior with bind9-host
Hi
Looks like the bind9-host package is sticky...
grover:/home/ed# aptitude update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Hit http://amd64.debian.net sid/main Packages
Get:1 http://amd64.debian.net sid/main Release [111B]
Hit http://amd64.debian.net sid/contrib Packages
Get:2 http://amd64.debian.net sid/contrib Release [114B]
Hit http://amd64.debian.net sid/main Sources
Get:3 http://amd64.debian.net sid/main Release [112B]
Hit http://amd64.debian.net sid/contrib Sources
Get:4 http://amd64.debian.net sid/contrib Release [115B]
Hit http://cyberspace.ucla.edu unstable/main Packages
Hit http://cyberspace.ucla.edu unstable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Release
Fetched 452B in 3s (137B/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
grover:/home/ed# aptitude upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8 openoffice.org openoffice.org-debian-files
openoffice.org-l10n-en xprt-xprintorg
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-host
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/108kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 164344 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bind9-host 1:9.3.1-2 (using .../bind9-host_1%3a9.3.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bind9-host ...
Setting up bind9-host (9.3.1-2) ...
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
We have installed bind9-host....
grover:/home/ed# aptitude upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8 openoffice.org openoffice.org-debian-files
openoffice.org-l10n-en xprt-xprintorg
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-host
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/108kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 164344 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bind9-host 1:9.3.1-2 (using .../bind9-host_1%3a9.3.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bind9-host ...
Setting up bind9-host (9.3.1-2) ...
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descr
Notice that it still thinks bind9-host needs to be installed. How do I find out why? Alternately, how
do I fix it?
TIA,
Ed Tomlinson
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