On Friday 13 September 2002 12:24, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > > I was missing hold/unhold action in dpkg command, so there is a patch > > with this feature. > > Write your own wrapper. dpkg should not even know a packagae is on hold > or any other desired state. Expect --set-selections and --get-selections > to be removed at some point as well. > > Wichert.
how are we to toggle the package's state to hold if this is done? What about the well known Debian backup script: dpkg --get-selections|grep -e 'install$' > mypackages ?? If the main controller for the packaging system does not know this information, what will?
