On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Package: apticron
> Version: 1.1.55
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> aptitude informs me about the following:
>
> The following packages are currently pending an upgrade:
>
> libc6 2.13-38+deb7u4
> libc-bin 2.13-38+deb7u4
> sysvinit 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
>
> However, on this specific system,
>
> - libc6 is on hold, so the first two packages can't be upgraded
> - sysvinit can't be upgraded, because upstart is on hold
>
> ("hold" by dpkg --set-selections)
>
> /etc/apticron/apticron.conf has the line:
> NOTIFY_HOLDS="0"
> which I believed would help here, but it doesn't.
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Hi. I had a very similar problem today.
On a system running buster I'm still using prometheus-node-exporter
from stretch.
apticron says:
libio-pty-perl 1:1.08-1.1+b4
libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
moreutils 0.62-1
prometheus-node-exporter 0.16.0+ds-2
when I use NOTIFY_HOLDS="0" in /etc/apticron/apticron.conf I get this instead:
libio-pty-perl 1:1.08-1.1+b4
libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
moreutils 0.62-1
but if I also set NOTIFY_NEW="0" then apticron is finally silent.
Does NOTIFY_NEW help in your case as well?
Thanks.
