Re: aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-02-19, £ukasz Stelmach penned:
> > U¿ytkownik Monique Y. Herman napisa³:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Did I accidentally enable some option? Is my configuration
> >> corrupted? Something else?
> >>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Maybe you should check if this option is on:
> >
> > Options->Miscellaneous->Automatically upgrade installed packages.
> >
>
> Doh! That's exactly it. Thank you.
>
> (I wonder how I managed to change that setting without noticing ...)
It may have changed under your feed. I experienced the same problem, and I
did not touch it. Either it was inactive due to a bug that got fixed (and
thus I had changed it in the distant past, but only now it started working),
or something in the last two weeks toggled it without 'permission' :)
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