Hi, to be able to execute a dist-upgrade without --no-install-recommends, I build and installed a grub-pc dummy package.
In this case executing it with --no-install-recommends was possible too, since other packages than the kernel packages didn't try to install recommended packages, but in generell I want to be able to upgrade without installing recommended packages for some packages, while for other packages recommended packages should be installed. Just in case I also build 2 other packages with software I never want to be installed. That Wily's synaptic marked packages with a "!" seems to replace the "*" for available upgrades at the moment. Maybe another bug for synaptic. # ls -hAl total 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Sep 6 11:40 grub-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 Sep 6 11:40 gvfs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Sep 6 11:40 pulseaudio # cat grub-pc Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Package: grub-pc Version: 2015:09-06-moonstudio Maintainer: Weremouse <silver.bul...@zoho.com> Architecture: all Description: Dummy package # equivs-build grub-pc; equivs-build gvfs; equivs-build pulseaudio [snip] # ls -hog total 24K -rw-r--r-- 1 185 Sep 6 11:40 grub-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 2.0K Sep 6 11:41 grub-pc_09-06-moonstudio_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 182 Sep 6 11:40 gvfs -rw-r--r-- 1 2.0K Sep 6 11:41 gvfs_09-06-moonstudio_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 188 Sep 6 11:40 pulseaudio -rw-r--r-- 1 2.0K Sep 6 11:41 pulseaudio_09-06-moonstudio_all.deb # dpkg -i *_09-06-moonstudio_all.deb [snip] # apt-get update [snip] # apt-get dist-upgrade [snip] # apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # synaptic [snip] Everything is ok now. I just wonder if Ubuntu will automatically remove the oldest kernel that belongs to the meta package, as soon as a second upgrade will install the third kernel that belongs to the meta package. Regards, Ralf -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users