Comment 4 for bug 75332

On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:17:32AM -0400, Faheem Mitha <email address hidden> was heard to say:
> > b) that if you put a package (say foo) on hold in the traditional way,
> > # echo "foo hold" | dpkg --set-selections
> > this is completely ignored by aptitude.
>
> Could you give me a reproducible test case? This has always worked
> for me.

That is strange. I get this behaviour with every package I tried. Ok, here
is an example of a run (with vim).

Chrestomanci:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep vim
vim hold
Chrestomanci:~# aptitude upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  apt-howto debian-policy links openafs-client
The following packages will be upgraded:
  vim
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 3751kB of archives. After unpacking 1417kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?]

As you can see, I have vim listed as held, but aptitude upgrade is still
upgrading vim (btw, the flags for vim in aptitude are iu.) So, vim is not
marked as held by aptitude.

I can't imagine why you would get different behaviour.

aptitude version is 0.2.11.1, the precompiled binary. Pretty much all
other related packages are whatever is in woody (which I am tracking). The
only other thing I can think of is that the config file (which is old) is
causing something funny to happen, so I am including it below.

                                 Best regards, Faheem Mitha.

(.aptitude/config)

aptitude "";
aptitude::UI "";
aptitude::UI::Package-Header-Format "%N %n #%B %u %o";
aptitude::UI::Package-Status-Format "%d";
aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a %p #%v%V";
aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping "filter(missing),task,status,section(subdir,passthrough),section(topdir)";
aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "false";
aptitude::UI::Description-Visible-By-Default "true";
aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Download-Bar "true";
aptitude::UI::Prompt-On-Exit "true";
aptitude::UI::Exit-On-Last-Close "true";
aptitude::UI::Incremental-Search "true";
aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts "true";
aptitude::UI::Menubar-Autohide "false";
aptitude::UI::HelpBar "true";
aptitude::UI::New-Package-Commands "false";
aptitude::UI::Pause-After-Download "true";
aptitude::Pkg-Display-Limit "";
aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern "";
aptitude::Delete-Unused "true";
aptitude::Suggests-Important "true";
aptitude::Recommends-Important "true";
aptitude::Auto-Fix-Broken "true";
aptitude::Auto-Install "true";
aptitude::Log "/var/log/aptitude";
aptitude::Warn-Not-Root "true";
aptitude::Forget-New-On-Install "false";
aptitude::Forget-New-On-Update "false";
aptitude::Display-Planned-Action "true";
aptitude::Changelog-URL-Template "http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=%s";
aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update "false";
aptitude::Auto-Upgrade "true";