[Bug 1694989] Re: apt-mark overwrites existing held package info
Nicolas R.
1694989 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Oct 26 15:08:18 UTC 2021
This is very annoying, I agree that either, apt-mark should not accept
'uninstalled' packages or we should avoid losing packages marked as
'hold'
Steps to reproduce (assuming none of these two packages are available)
Trying to mark as hold two uninstalled packages... and notice that the
second we add the second one we lost the status for the first one..
> apt update
> apt-mark hold p0f
p0f set on hold.
> apt-mark showhold
p0f
> grep -c p0f /var/lib/dpkg/status
1
> apt-mark hold dovecot-core
dovecot-core set on hold.
> apt-mark showhold
dovecot-core
> grep -c p0f /var/lib/dpkg/status
0
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Title:
apt-mark overwrites existing held package info
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in apt package in Debian:
New
Bug description:
Running apt-mark hold commands overwrites / nullifies any existing
held package data. Not sure if this is by design, but I assume it's
meant to be cumulative.
Ubuntu version: 16.04.2 LTS
Package version: apt 1.2.19 amd64
Expected behaviour:
apt-mark hold 3dchess
apt-mark hold 0ad
apt-mark showhold
3dchess
0ad
Actual behaviour:
apt-mark hold 3dchess
apt-mark hold 0ad
apt-mark showhold
0ad
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