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Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades




On 06/08/2009 12:44:13 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:

On 06/08/2009 12:40:16 PM, Harry Rickards wrote:
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On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show
> the packages on hold that would have been upgraded
> but were held back.  On lenny this no longer happens.


'aptitude safe-upgrade' will upgrade safely, and will sometimes hold
back packages. 'aptitude dist-upgrade' will not. I think upgrade now
goes to safe-upgrade.

Neither will upgrade packages that have been put on hold
with "aptitude hold".  That's what I'm asking about.

Now that I think of it I'd like to see a listing of
packages that have
been held back for any reason, both those held because
I manually put the on hold and those that are held back
by aptitude for reasons of it's own when a "safe-upgrade"
is done.  Either way I'll need to manually look at upgrading.


> How do I get a list of those packages, and only those
> packages, that would be upgraded if they were not on hold?


Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein


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Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein


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