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

[Katipo <katipo@weavers-web.org>]

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> 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?
>
>  
Yes.
I was alternating between dselect and aptitude for a while, being 
careful to update in the applicable medium on each occasion before 
upgrading, or just installing/removing single packages. Essentially I 
was just looking for a preferred flavour of package manager.
In the end, I didn't know where I was.
I'm sticking with just aptitude at the moment to cut down on variables.
Regards,

David.