[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816781: aptitude: Can not cancel pending upgrade actions

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2016-05-25 10:02 Andrei Demekhov:
>Hello, Manuel,
>
>I cannot cancel pending actions which were scheduled by parsing the 
>output from debsecan in this way:
>
># debsecan --only-fixed --suite sid|fgrep urgency |fgrep -v low|awk 
>'{print $2}'|sort -u|xargs aptitude --schedule-only install
>
>This behaviour might be related to the bug in question, and I find it 
>inconvenient. Do we still have any opportunity of one-touch cancelling 
>some scheduled actions in aptitude?

"keep-all", which is what this menu action used to do.

Alternatively, you can select those packages which are going to be
upgraded ("~aupgrade"), or in general not to keep in the same state
("!~akeep"), and only act on them.

Something like:

	  aptitude keep '!~akeep' [1]

Cheers.


[1] "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
    not tried it." [2]   ;-)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>