On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:47:46AM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, James Dietrich wrote: > > > I use the apt method in dselect. > [ ... ] > > > > However, apt still shows those same five X packages > > as being the only ones on hold: > > Updating package status cache...done > > Checking system integrity...ok > > The following packages have been kept back > > xbase xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. > > > > Why doesn't it show libc6 and friends as well? I'd like > > to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious. > > libc6 and friends don't need to be updated / don't have a newer version, > so apt isn't holding them back. It will be holding them back when a new > version is available.
OK, here is the line from dselect for xbase: *== Std x11 xbase 3.3.2.3a-8 3.3.2.3a-8. X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure and here is the line from locales: *== Std admin locales 2.0.7v-1 2.0.7-19981 GNU Libc: National Language (locale) data and (Sorry for the long lines.) It looks like there is a new version of locales. Or am I still missing something? Thanks, James
