On Fri,22.May.09, 22:11:51, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Barclay, Daniel schreef: > > Why does apticron ignore held packages? Wouldn't one want to know about > > security updates even for packages that are in the held state? > Well, because they're in held state. That's what it is supposed to do. > > > > In my case in particular I certainly do. I have been keeping all > > installed packages on hold in order to cause more confirmation > > prompting from non-interactive aptitude when I install something. > > (I _think_ it affects aptitude, although I haven't check that in a > > while.) > I don't think you should use the held-state for that. Just use aptitude > safe-upgrade with cation and aptitude full-upgrade with more caution. > You can also choose to update via an `aptitude reinstall packagename`, > the you're sure only that package (and possibly its dependencies) are > affected. Why 'reinstall'? 'install' will upgrade the package too (if upgrades are available). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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