Re: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed
On Fri, Apr 23 at 7:16, Daniel Burrows penned:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:44:20PM -0600, "Monique Y. Mudama"
> <spam@bounceswoosh.org> was heard to say:
> > For some reason, this just now triggered a memory for me. I think
> > sometimes when aptitude is making suggestions to resolve
> > conflicts, it will un-hold packages. I wonder if this is how your
> > explicit hold gets removed.
>
> Just so this isn't left hanging, the reason I say this shouldn't
> happen is that it *used* to happen and I fixed it. There were two
> ways you could get broken holds, and I fixed one in version
> 0.4.11:
>
*snip*
Hi Daniel,
I don't think I've seen aptitude un-hold packages recently; I don't
remember specifically when I last saw that happen. I'll let you know if
I do see it.
--
monique
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