Re: Why are so many packages "held back?"
--- Neal Lippman <nl@lippman.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 21:50, Michael P. Soulier
> wrote:
> > On 11/05/03 Neal Lippman did speaketh:
> >
> > > I'm wondering why so many packages get held
> back. I run testing, and
> > > when I do an apt-get upgrade, about 10-15
> packages are being held back.
> > > I would have assumed that all packages in
> testing were "up to date" for
> > > the testing release, so why do things get held
> back?
> >
> > They probably require new packages to be
> installed. Remember that
> > upgrade never installs anything new. It only
> upgrades existing packages.
> > If you want to clear most of those away, use
> dist-upgrade, which will
> > install new packages.
> >
> Is there a way to determine if that is the case?
> Also, what happens if
> I am already running testing and do a dist-upgrade?
> Does that just grab
> new packages that are needed for currently installed
> packages?
>
> Thanks.
Neal,
Doing the dist-upgrade will only install new
packages for testing. I myself do it once in awhile
to clear all of the packages being held back.
HTH
Don
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