On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:59:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure removing a package on hold is a good thing, > after all the admin places it on hold as a specific action > to indicate that normal package management should not > touch it until the admin decides otherwise. > > Maybe, if a prompt could be arranged... > It should default to leaving the package on hold, however. >
Well, there are two problems : 1) It's much more difficult to change the internals of dpkg than to use some tricks in order to implement these "security updates". So, with my proposal, I'm not quite sure that a prompt would be in some way feasible ; 2) You're right about the primacy of the admin's decisions. But perhaps the solution proposed is not a problem because a package tagged "hold" would be simply ignored, whether there are conflicts or not. Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY / Tel.-Fax : 33.(0)4.50.67.46.61 website : http://www.polynum.com /home du SDF (Site Debian Francophone) : http://www.polynum.com/debian/
