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Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.



on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:55:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:46:59PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> Turns out to be a two year old bug.  This colors my opinion of aptitude
> very negatively:
> 
>     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=146207

...and:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=137771


There are apparently three package selection databases.  These should be
either unified or cross-validated:

  - dpkg
  - apt
  - aptitude


Anyone else running into this?

Peace.

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Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>        http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
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    IANAL, but from what I've read on slashdot...
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