APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
[Note: this is a repost, since nobody responded to it, yet I find it hard to believe that nobody knows the answer to my question.] Hi, Yesterday I wondered how much MBs I'd have to download to upgrade my hamm system (plus *some* slink stuff in there) to slink, so I set my sources.list and did

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread sjb
This showed numerous packages as being 'kept back': Packages are held back when you choose Hold in dselect. When there are dependancy/conflict errors apt tells you. Regards Sarel Botha

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread Maarten Boekhold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This showed numerous packages as being 'kept back': Packages are held back when you choose Hold in dselect. When there are dependancy/conflict errors apt tells you. So, does this mean I'll have to go into dselect and see if these packages are placed on hold? I

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread sjb
So, does this mean I'll have to go into dselect and see if these packages are placed on hold? I wonder how this happens, cos for sure I yip never did this myself, and I can't remember ever having had serious problems with dpkg etc. which might have automagically marked these packages as on

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Maarten Boekhold wrote: [Note: this is a repost, since nobody responded to it, yet I find it hard to believe that nobody knows the answer to my question.] Hi, Yesterday I wondered how much MBs I'd have to download to upgrade my hamm system (plus *some* slink stuff

APT: packages held back

1999-03-05 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, Yesterday I wondered how much MBs I'd have to download to upgrade my hamm system (plus *some* slink stuff in there) to slink, so I set my sources.list and did 'apt-get update' + 'apt-get upgrade' (and answered 'no' ;). This showed numerous packages as being 'kept back': The following