Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

[Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk>]

On 18/04/2020 21:34, Michael Howard wrote:

On 18/04/2020 21:02, Sven Hartge wrote:

Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> wrote:

I've not used apt-mark much (or it's previous methods) so I'm a bit
confused by what I'm seeing.

If I use 'apt-mark hold <package1> <package2>' and then 'apt-mark 
showhold' I get '<package1> <package2>' listed.

If I then do 'apt-mark hold <package3>' followed by 'apt-mark showhold' 
I get only '<package3>' listed. This can't be right, surely?

Sorry, I can't reproduce this, here on Debian 10:

<snip>

Still good, but then,

root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold xterm
xterm set on hold.
root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark showhold
bash
dash
xterm
root@bamford:/etc#

Is that expected?

Same on stretch.

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