Re: aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?
On 2004-02-19, David Z Maze penned:
> "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> writes:
>
>> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines,
>> aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago,
>> every package that would normally be aqua (available for upgrade) in
>> the "g" screen is instead white and listed under "Packages being held
>> back." I can hit "+" on a package and it will then install. Very
>> odd.
>
> Which Debian? I noticed this happening on my unstable machine a week
> or so ago; I hit '+' on the "Upgradeable Packages" line and everything
> went off and installed. I never entirely figured out why, though, and
> it hasn't done it since.
You, sir, are a genius!
The machine in question is unstable, but so is the machine that's
working fine.
Maybe we both accidentally hit "=" while the "upgradable packages" line
was hilighted?
--
monique
Reply to: