Bug#571304: apt keeps trying to add packages that not selected for installation
Hi Mark Hobley,
2010/2/28 Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.co.uk>:
> I would first select:
>
> 1: (U)pdate list of available packages
>
> followed by:
>
> 3: (I)nstall and upgrade wanted packages
>
> This would keep adding those packages to the list.
I never used dselect, but isn't that a feature?
I mean, if you have selected the packages for installation
they are selected until you undo the selection…?
(or install the selection of course)
You can list the selected status with e.g. dpkg -l pkg1 pkg2…
As the header will try to tell you is the first character the
status you selected and the second the status the package
currently has on the system, e.g. (truncated for readability)
$ dpkg -l apt apt-doc
ii apt
in apt-doc
tells me that i have apt installed and i also want it to be installed
and that i want to have apt-doc installed while it is currentlyand apt
not installed.
I guess all (or at least a few) packages that dselect wants
to install all the time have the status "in". (A not selected and
not installed package has the status "un" = unkown & not installed)
The alternative would be a bug in apt i currently can't find
which installs packages because they are a dependency of
another package apt want to install but changed his mind
later on because of some problems - i currently doubt it as
dselect seems to do the same dependency checking apt
would do…
Btw: Which APT version we are talking about?
Or in which state is your system in general?
The preferences indicate that you don't follow a specific
release, but cherrypick updates - automatically apt will
never suggest a single package update as all preferences
are below 100…
Best regards,
David Kalnischkies
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