Re: Getting rid of holds on packages

2005-06-29 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:56:06PM +0200, Lech Karol Paw?aszek wrote: echo $package $state | dpkg --set-selections where $package is a package name and $state is a new state for a package (like 'hold', 'install', 'purge') Then it is still handy to know which packages are on hold at the

Getting rid of holds on packages

2005-06-26 Thread David Baron
Hold back a package is deprecated. I had used it in the past becasue pinning prevented notification of updates that might have fixed the problem. How do I get rid of these hold flags? (They persist and also foul up Kpackage's UI.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Getting rid of holds on packages

2005-06-26 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 6/26/05, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hold back a package is deprecated. I had used it in the past becasue pinningprevented notification of updates that might have fixed the problem. How do Iget rid of these hold flags? (They persist and also foul up Kpackage's UI.) With Aptitude I

Re: Getting rid of holds on packages

2005-06-26 Thread Lech Karol Pawłaszek
On Sunday 26 of June 2005 11:56, David Baron wrote: Hold back a package is deprecated. I had used it in the past becasue pinning prevented notification of updates that might have fixed the problem. How do I get rid of these hold flags? (They persist and also foul up Kpackage's UI.) echo