Re: aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Thursday 19 February 2004 20:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I was about to respond to suggest that -- I did the same thing myself a 
week or two back

-- 
richard