Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.8-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
We read The difference between hold and keep is that hold will cause a package to be ignored by future safe-upgrade or full-upgrade commands, while keep merely cancels any scheduled actions on the package. unhold will allow a package to be upgraded by future safe-upgrade or full-upgrade commands, without otherwise altering its state. Perhaps add (if my hunch is correct): The reason there is no "unkeep" command is that keep only affects the computations done on the current command line (I, Dan Jacobson, only know about the command line and do not use the curses version of aptitude.) No state is changed in /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates (my guess.) Thus doing only # aptitude keep somepackage is a no-op(?, and really should trigger an error?) Therefore keep is only useful in combinations with install and full-upgrade, safe-upgrade, in its ":" suffix form (at least on the command line.) (The above are all my guesses.) _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel