Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Now that Sarge has gone stable and I have done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
> I am left with only a few packages held back. These are all, I believe,
> due to the fact that I have put them on 'hold.' I don't think that any
> of them are held back for other reasons. I have more packages on hold
> than are held back, so I assume that the others are current, even though
> I have them on hold.
>
> Looking through the output of 'dpkg --get-selections', however, see a
> lot of packages with a status of 'deinstall.' Are these packages that
> should be uninstalled, but for some reason are being kept? I have not
> noticed this status before, and am curious about it.
It means they are marked for deinstallation in the dselect database
(/var/lib/dpkg/status). "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't pay attention to
that database; you'd need to use "apt-get dselect-upgrade" or just run
dselect for any of those to be noticed.
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