On Sun 13 May 2001, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:32:36AM -0500, Hilarion wrote: > > I have an alien'd mozilla 0.8.1, but [unstable] wants to install the > > repackaged > > M18. I'm *still* kind of a newbie when it comes to package management. Any > > good suggestions? I've looked for options to freeze a package version, but > > alas. > > > > I'd like to keep the alien'd package, rather than remove it, and rpm > > it back. Given that there will eventually be a "greater" version than > > "m18", what should I do, or speak to? > > hold it?
In other words: echo 'mozilla hold' | dpkg --set-selections BTW, this isn't alpha-specific at all, you would probably get faster (and perhaps more eloquent?) answers from debian-user . Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.org/
