apt update question
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I am using apt4rpm on SuSE 8.0. I have looked through the man-pages and the howto, but have not found answers to the following questions: 1) Can apt tell me why a new package was issued? (ie. What bug was fixed?) 2) Can apt tell me why a package has been 'kept back' without my having to manually read all the dependencies and compare them with what I have installed? At the moment apt keeps back the following: docbook_4 gimp k_deflt kdelibs3 mod_php4 mod_php4-core mozilla xscreensaver I found out the hard way that kdelibs3 was kept back because it (contrary to previous versions) required qt=3.0.4 instead of qt>=3.0.4, and I have qt 3.0.5. If you know why any of those packages are kept back, I would like to know, but I would very much prefer a way to have apt tell me, so I know for next time. Regards Ole
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* Ole Kofoed Hansen; <ole@sandbox.adsl.dk> on 27 Nov, 2002 wrote:
I am using apt4rpm on SuSE 8.0. I have looked through the man-pages and the howto, but have not found answers to the following questions:
1) Can apt tell me why a new package was issued? (ie. What bug was fixed?)
2) Can apt tell me why a package has been 'kept back' without my having to manually read all the dependencies and compare them with what I have installed?
have you tried apt4rpm-users@lists.sourceforge.net as that list most probably have answers -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
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