On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 16:03:53 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> I'm practicing upgrades on my spare laptop, getting ready for doing
> my server upgrade from ascii to beowulf..
>
> They are both running ascii.
>
> Starting, of course, by making the ascii up to date still as ascii,
> before I try tye upgrade to beowulf.
>
> Having trouble doing even this innocuous act.
>
> I tried starting by using interactive aptitude to just update and
> upgrade.
>
> Only to discover that *every* package that might be upgraded was
> "held", and could therefore not be upgraded even though newer
> packages were available.
>
> What could be causing this? Or rather, how should I go about trying
> to track down the origin of these holds/this mass hold?
>
> 55 packagesin the list of packages held back.
> and
> 282 packages being "automatically held in their current state".

Could they require a "dist-upgrade"?
IME, that usually deals with held packages.

>