On Sb, 28 iun 14, 21:42:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU dixit:
>
> >Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master
> >of all packages :p
>
> Wrong:
>
> • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system
> (well, not necessarily, anyway)
You're not seriously suggesting dpkg would "sneak" a package on your
system behind your back, do you?
> • aptitude has been known to ignore the view dpkg/apt have
> on the system, e.g. wrt. held packages, for ages
Which is why the conflicting package solution is suboptimal, but a pin
works:
# LANG=C aptitude install bad-package
No candidate version found for bad-package
No candidate version found for bad-package
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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