Asa Rossoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New to Debian, fairly new to Linux.
>
> Using Woody.
>
> I am using dselect for all my package management, and ran into trouble
> yesterday.  I selected many packages for install, and went to do the
> install, but the source mirrors I had setup were not working.  I
> selected  different mirrors and, and asked it to install again.  It
> installed (I think) a subset of the packages.
>
> I then went into the select screen again and just exited again (thinking
> this would get it to reconsider the package selections).
>
> I then told it to install again, now it lists probably all the packages
> I had selected to install, but it also lists 4 packages for removal that
> are *not marked for removal* in the select screen, and I don't want
> removed!  One of which is the kernel image I am using...
>
> Any suggestions to prevent it from removing those packages?
>
> In gratitude,
> Asa

Well, I solved the problem.  I had added a source for backports.org, and
I think apt wanted to upgrade my system to all the backports....

Commented out that source and everything was back to normal.

How then can I make use of the backports but not have everything upgraded?


Asa

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