holding a package in aptitude does not set dpkg's selection

# aptitude uses its own state information
reassign 174091 aptitude
severity 174091 normal
merge 174091 137771

severity 171248 normal
retitle 171248 corrupted cache files cause segfault
merge 165448 171248

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 - mdz

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merge 161810 137771
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On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 08:53:34PM +0200, <email address hidden> was heard to say:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.2.11.1-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I have installed several packages manualy, because I added a patch there, which
> is long outstanding on program's bugtrack, but was not applied yet. I have set
> the packages on hold using aptitude. But apt-get, dpkg nor dselect honor this
> seting. I think aptitude should set the hold flag globally, not just for it's
> internal use.
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Kernel Version: Linux vagabond 2.4.19 #11 Po srp 5 12:31:27 CEST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
>
> Versions of the packages aptitude depends on:
> ii libc6 2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
> ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a- Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii libsigc++0 1.0.4-3 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime
> ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
> ii apt 0.5.4 Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ^^^ (Provides virtual package libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2)
>
>

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submitter 146413...

Hi Daniel,

may I inquire about the status of these two bugs? The non-interface of
aptitude with apt-get makes aptitude's holds especially useless if one
uses cron-apt because cron-apt uses apt-get which ignores aptitudes
holds.

Can you please talk with the apt maintainers how this could be solved
in time for sarge?

Greetings
Marc

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package apticron
block 431869 by 137771
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It is true that apticron doesn't use aptitude, but as long as I understand the
problem, this is still an aptitude bug. The question is the way you put
packages on hold. If you use aptitude for that (# aptitude hold foo), neither
apt nor dselect will consider it because it saves that information into an
internal database (see #137771). While if you do that by the traditional way
(# echo "foo hold" | dpkg --set-selections) it is considered by apt-get, and
also by apticron.

I'll block this bug, since it cannot be fixed before having #137771 fixed.

Regards,

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forcemerge 137771 199887
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hope this is right, just trying to help