Command: echo <package_name> hold is not working

[Susana Pereira]

Hi there,

I'm trying to lock version in the samba package to be impossible to update the package with the command: echo samba hold | dpkg --set-selections , but when i make apt-get install samba the package start to install.

I want to prevent that someone make the mistake to update the package with the apt-get command using the command echo <package> hold.
Isn't suppose the echo <package> hold prevent/block the apt-get install ?

Thanks is advanced.

Susana Pereira

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hi Susana, I just tried this on Lucid and Oneiric, and it worked fine.

root@ip-10-195-191-111:~# dpkg -l samba
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
hi samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
root@ip-10-195-191-111:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libwbclient0 linux-ec2 linux-image-ec2 linux-image-virtual linux-virtual samba samba-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apport apt apt-transport-https apt-utils aptitude bind9-host byobu dnsutils libbind9-60 libdns64
  libfreetype6 libgssapi-krb5-2 libisc60 libisccc60 libisccfg60 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0
  libldap-2.4-2 liblwres60 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g python-apport python-problem-report
  samba-common-bin tzdata unattended-upgrades update-manager-core update-notifier-common
30 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.

Can you run

apport-collect 898363

to fill in what versions of all the tools you have?

Marking as Incomplete, priority Medium.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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