Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Bill Leach wrote:
> I do know that dpkg does not pay any attention to the "hold" status in
> the admin file when executed directly (which makes sense to me).
That is because you will have to supply the -O option to dpkg if you want
it to pay attention to that flag (which can be 'install', 'uninstall' or
'hold'). From 'dpkg --help':
-O|--selected-only Skip packages not selected for install/upgrade
Dselect's ftp method (the only one I use) always calls dpkg with -iGREOB .
Remco
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