Re: Aptitude oddity
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:13:33 -0700, Daniel Burrows (dburrows@debian.org) wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> was heard to say:
> > It's a bug. If "aptitude safe-upgrade" can't find any packages that are
> > _not_ on hold (or forbidden), it will try to upgrade packages that you
> > don't want to. See http://bugs.debian.org/466228.
>
> That shouldn't happen now: the dependency resolver should refuse to
> break holds unless you set Aptitude::ProblemResolver::Allow-Break-Holds
> to true (it defaults to false). There's one exception I know of, which
> is that the greedy apt resolver will happily break holds (see #470035),
> but that doesn't even apply in the case of safe-upgrade. I would be
> interested in adding "-o Aptitude::CmdLine::Resolver-Debug=true" to the
> command line and seeing what you get.
I don't quite follow this Daniel, sorry. Doing the above would start
aptitude in interactive mode? I'm afraid I only use it from the command
line but can assure you that it is still trying to safe-upgrade two of
my three held packages as per my original post.
Aptitude version 0.4.11.8-1 with lenny.
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