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

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:25:18 +0200
Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:

> Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark hold sudo sudo-ldap
> > sudo set on hold.
> > sudo-ldap set on hold.
> > root@bamford:/etc# apt-mark showhold
> > bash
> > dash
> > sudo
> > sudo-ldap
> 
> > 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?
> 
> *That* I can reproduce. Interesting.
> 
> No, that is not intended. 
> 
> This looks like https://bugs.debian.org/892632 "apt: "apt-mark hold"
> changes state of unrelated packages" to me.

that's what I thought.

I tried some more, and here the same command sequence leads to a slightly
different result:

# apt-mark showhold
# apt-mark hold bash dash sudo sudo-ldap
bash auf Halten gesetzt.
dash auf Halten gesetzt.
sudo auf Halten gesetzt.
sudo-ldap auf Halten gesetzt.
# apt-mark showhold
bash
dash
sudo
sudo-ldap
# apt-mark hold xterm
xterm auf Halten gesetzt.
# apt-mark showhold
bash
dash
sudo
xterm
#

But then, I noticed that  sudo-ldap is not actually installed here, and in
fact it appears to conflict with sudo so apparently both cannot coexist.

So maybe the basic problem here is that we are trying to make apt do
things that really don't make any sense?

Regards
Michael


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