Re: Apt and packages on hold
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, James Dietrich wrote:
>
> I use the apt method in dselect.
>
> I have had the NMUs of several X packages (-8.1) on
> hold for a long time and after selecting install in
> dselect, it listed those five packages as having been
> held back.
>
> After seeing the message this morning about a possible
> problem with locales 2.0.7-19981211-1 I also put libc6,
> locales, timezones, libc6-dev, glibc-doc, and libc6-dev
> on hold pending further information.
>
> However, apt still shows those same five X packages
> as being the only ones on hold:
> Updating package status cache...done
> Checking system integrity...ok
> The following packages have been kept back
> xbase xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
>
> Why doesn't it show libc6 and friends as well? I'd like
> to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious.
The reason is that libc6 has a recommends for timezone, not timezones
(presumably it's just a typo) and this causes a conflict since timezone
cannot be found in the package list (there are bug reports filed against
libc6 for this).
Bob
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