On Tuesday 07 June 2005 20:53, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Actually, that's not quite true: searching for '~ahold' will show you > a list of packages that are either "held" in a sticky way or are not > going to be upgraded because they haven't been selected for upgrade; if > you manipulate things a little you might be able to get a list of all > held packages out of that. fjp@gimli:~$ sudo aptitude update fjp@gimli:~$ sudo aptitude hold aptitude fjp@gimli:~$ aptitude search "~ahold" ih aptitude - terminal-based apt frontend i discover1 - hardware identification system i A libdiscover1 - hardware identification library i libdiscover1-pic - hardware identification library - [...] i A libusb-0.1-4 - userspace USB programming library i usbutils - USB console utilities fjp@gimli:~$ aptitude search "~ahold" | grep "^.h" ih aptitude - terminal-based apt frontend Looks like that last command will do the trick nicely. Thanks for the hints. (The second option looked too much like "do not feed to newbies" ;-) Cheers, FJP
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