Re: Why are so many packages "held back?"
On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 09:50:13PM -0400, 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.
>
> Mike
I routinely use dist-upgrade and last week file-rc and kudzu
were held back. Out of curiousity I tried install file-rc (not
really smart since it is a one-shot installation) and quickly
abandoned the attempt when warned that if I continued many key
packages and one essential package would be removed. I hope
this is just a temporary problem.
Tom
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