On Thursday 18 September 2008 16:55:43 Stephen Olander-Waters wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:19 -0300, Fabricio Cannini - Yahoo wrote: > > On Thursday 18 September 2008 15:05:17 Stephen Olander-Waters wrote: > > > Allow me to unrecommend Blackdown JRE 1.4.2. Unfortunately, the > > > maintainers of xul-runner have seen fit to conflict with every version > > > of jre 1.4.2. > > > > > > Your choices are to force reinstallation of Blackdown 1.4.2 after every > > > dist-upgrade or install it outside of package management. > > > > > > Those of us stuck with legacy applications on modern OS's are in a bind > > > with this situation. > > > > > > -s > > > > Hi Stephen! > > > > Have you tried to use /etc/apt/preferences' do disallow apt-get/aptitude > > of uninstalling Blackdown's jre ? > > No. I did not think that worked for conflicting packages. I thought it > would make xulrunner uninstall or disable dist-upgrading. > > Is that not true? > -s
You caught me on this one. :) I'm not sure about what would happen, but you can try the following in '/etc/apt/preferences' : Package: blackdown-jvm Pin: version 1.4.* Pin-Priority: 1100 IFINR aptitude will, at the very least, ask you what to do. Good luck! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
