"Andrew O. Shadoura" <bugzi...@tut.by> writes: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:25:29 +0200 > Peter De Wachter <pdewa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a >> negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will >> refuse to install it. > >> For example, with the following stanza apt will refuse to install >> libfoo: >> Package: libfoo >> Pin: version * >> Pin-Priority: -1 > > Possibly, there should be some kind of automagical interface for this, > so one can type apt-... ... libfoo and get that stanza generated?
It's actually very easy to write such a tool: ~# cat >/usr/local/sbin/apt-ignore #! /bin/sh set -e ai_usage () { cat <<EOF Usage: apt-ignore PACKAGES... Creates a new file in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ to ignore all of the packages specified on the command-line. EOF } if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then ai_usage exit 1 fi for pkg in $@; do cat <<EOF Package: ${pkg} Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 EOF done >$(tempfile -d /etc/apt/preferences.d/ -p ign-) ^D ~# chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/apt-ignore There's little error handling, one could add support for --help, write a manual page and probably a whole lot of other things (like using more sensible filenames, and warning the user if trying to ignore a package that does not exist (possibly only when a flag is specified - so one can ignore packages that are not in the archive yet, but will be)), but I'll leave that to someone who'd actually use the program. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87oc21j7as....@luthien.mhp