Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

From: Wayne Topa (brittman_at_capital.net)
Date: 11/15/04

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    Steve Lamb(grey@dmiyu.org) is reported to have said:
    > Marc Wilson wrote:
    > >Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then
    >
    > Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my "normal
    > tools" is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be using
    > dselect? dpkg I can see when installing third party applications
    > (transgaming, for example) but that's mostly confined to "dpkg -i".

    Steve, when you place a package on hold, with aptitude, does it show
    the package is on hold? It doesn't do that, with a package that isn't
    installed (p tetex), here with apitiude version 0.2.15.8, but
    dpkg -l tetex* does show its on hold

    VT1 root-3-Buddy:~# dpkg -l tetex*
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
    | |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
    | |uppercase=bad)
    | |||/ Name Version
    | |||Description
    | |||+++-==================================
    | |||un tetex <none> | |||(no description available)
    | |||hn tetex-base <none> | |||(no description available) | |||
    | |||hn tetex-bin <none> | |||(no description available)
    | |||un tetex-brev <none> | |||(no description available)
    | |||un tetex-dev <none> | |||(no description available)
    | |||un tetex-doc <none> | |||(no description available)
    | |||un tetex-eurosym <none> | |||(no description available) | |||
    | |||hn tetex-extra <none> | |||(no description available)
    | |||

    I don't see why aptitude should show different status information then
    dpkg does. Thats just one of many odd things I find when I use
    aptitude.

    Wayne 

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