install_packages fails at "aptitude --allow-change-held-packages ..."

[Henning Glawe]

Moin Adam,

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 06:56:27PM -0700, Adam Lewenberg wrote:
> When running the fai-make-nfsroot program I am getting an
> install_packages error:
> 
> aptitude: unrecognized option '--allow-change-held-packages'
> aptitude 0.8.13
> 
> The call to install_packages looks like this:
> 
> install_packages: executing chroot /srv/fai/bookworm-amd64 aptitude -R
> -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o
> Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew --allow-change-held-packages install
> deborphan dnsutils ... more packages
> 
> However, aptitude does not support the --allow-change-held-packages
> option, at least not on Debian bullseye or bookworm where I am running
> fai-make-nfsroot. I see this line in install_packages:
> 
> my $aptopt='-y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o
> Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew --allow-change-held-packages';
> 
> Maybe the "--allow-change-held-packages" should be removed/changed?

I also ran into this issue, a proposed fix is in:
https://github.com/faiproject/fai/pull/119

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