Barclay, Daniel schreef: > Why does apticron ignore held packages? Wouldn't one want to know about > security updates even for packages that are in the held state? Well, because they're in held state. That's what it is supposed to do. > > In my case in particular I certainly do. I have been keeping all > installed packages on hold in order to cause more confirmation > prompting from non-interactive aptitude when I install something. > (I _think_ it affects aptitude, although I haven't check that in a > while.) I don't think you should use the held-state for that. Just use aptitude safe-upgrade with cation and aptitude full-upgrade with more caution. You can also choose to update via an `aptitude reinstall packagename`, the you're sure only that package (and possibly its dependencies) are affected.
Sjoerd
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