Re: when setting a package to hold in aptitude does this mean apt-get knows about it?

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Subject: Re: when setting a package to hold in aptitude does this mean apt-get knows about it?
From: Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com>
Date: 06 Jul 2002 11:30:18 -0500
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On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 10:25, Walter Tautz wrote:
> I ask because it is unclear from apt-cache show package whether it really
> is being held?
> 
> -walter

I think the command you actually want is dpkg -s <pkgname>

apt-cache will just show information from the repository, not from your
system.

-Mark


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