Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)
Steve Lamb(grey@dmiyu.org) is reported to have said:
> Marc Wilson wrote:
> >Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then
>
> Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my "normal
> tools" is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be using
> dselect? dpkg I can see when installing third party applications
> (transgaming, for example) but that's mostly confined to "dpkg -i".
Steve, when you place a package on hold, with aptitude, does it show
the package is on hold? It doesn't do that, with a package that isn't
installed (p tetex), here with apitiude version 0.2.15.8, but
dpkg -l tetex* does show its on hold
VT1 root-3-Buddy:~# dpkg -l tetex*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
| |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
| |uppercase=bad)
| |||/ Name Version
| |||Description
| |||+++-==================================
| |||un tetex <none> | |||(no description available)
| |||hn tetex-base <none> | |||(no description available) | |||
| |||hn tetex-bin <none> | |||(no description available)
| |||un tetex-brev <none> | |||(no description available)
| |||un tetex-dev <none> | |||(no description available)
| |||un tetex-doc <none> | |||(no description available)
| |||un tetex-eurosym <none> | |||(no description available) | |||
| |||hn tetex-extra <none> | |||(no description available)
| |||
I don't see why aptitude should show different status information then
dpkg does. Thats just one of many odd things I find when I use
aptitude.
Wayne
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