Re: How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

[Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz>]

On 24 Aug 2001 01:44:00 -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I used
> >
> >echo "<package name> hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> 
> echo "<package name> purge" | dpkg --set-selections

Nice guess Atlas Shrugged but it doesn't work. The non-existent package
still exists in the database:

dpkg --get-selections tinytable
tinytable                        purge

It used to say hold but now it says purge. Not much of an improvement
:-)

Regards,
Adam

NB: I meant to put zope-tinytable on hold.