Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?
* Katipo <katipo@weavers-web.org> [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]:
> ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote:
>
> >Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem
> >with these "kept back" packages?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> Which packages are you referring to exactly?
> Regards,
This seems to be a new feature of some releases back. Try hitting
Shift-u and see if they are now marked as upgradable.
It seems as though the default behavior of aptitude is to not fetch
upgrades to already installed packages after an update (u command).
This can be nice when a private archive has been added to sources.list
and a new package is desired, but you don't want to download 13 MiB of
updates first down a dial-up line.
- Nate >>
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