Default OS update log

[vfr400racer]

I don't know how others "lost" their modified FFMPEG, but mine is prevented from updating;

Code:

# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
 ffmpeg
The following packages will be upgraded:
...

I made no changes to the packages. Checking, FFMPEG still has "--enable-rkmpp".

I know. It's aptitude!
Just tested it on my sd card image. apt-get shows ffmpeg as being held back. aptitude fetches the package and installs it.
aptitude also breaks ffmpeg. After the upgrade, neither the new nor the modified ffmpeg work:
ffmpeg.org: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It's probably because 'aptitude upgrade' does the equivalent of 'apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs'.

If you want to 'hold' a package use

Code:

echo 'package_name hold' > dpkg --set-selections

or configure a pin.

dpkg --get-selections showed ffmpeg on hold.
aptitude doesn't care about this.
I just double checked that.