Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-07 Thread Jason Chambers
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:03:40PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I thought too about hold... So I did set the package to hold, has no effect: I apt-get install something he gets something and first tries to reinstall the kernel-package again, when I Ctrl-c out of that, he installs

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thanks Russell! I did not know about the reference you quoted. But... I did not explain well enough! I do NOT want to remove the kernel-image package because it will remove my kernel which works very well. I just want him not to try to reinstall, because it is already installed, except for the

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks Russell! I did not know about the reference you quoted. But... I did not explain well enough! I do NOT want to remove the kernel-image package because it will remove my kernel which works very well. I just want him not to try to reinstall, because it is already

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
Reading man dpkg I do not see an option that says: do not try to reinstall the package... I've missed the start of the thread, so excuse me if this isn't what the OP wants, but setting the package to hold should do it, no? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I thought too about hold... So I did set the package to hold, has no effect: I apt-get install something he gets something and first tries to reinstall the kernel-package again, when I Ctrl-c out of that, he installs something. May be I'll try the developers group. Thanks!! Hugo.

How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian Users! I use make-kpkg to create a new kernel-image for Knoppix and install it using dpkg. The install will go all the way except for a Failed-config because he is trying to create an initrd.img on /boot and cannot because there is no /etc/fstab around. There won't be a fstab because

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian Users! I use make-kpkg to create a new kernel-image for Knoppix and install it using dpkg. The install will go all the way except for a Failed-config because he is trying to create an initrd.img on /boot and cannot because there is no /etc/fstab around. There