On Monday 21 February 2005 16:41, Derek Broughton wrote: > I don't think so. I believe it ignores holds made with dpkg, but provides > much more flexible management within itself. So, I play with sid - with > daily upgrades - and every now and then get burned by a bad package. I > back it out, reinstall the old one, and put it on hold until I see a > different new package in sid. I'm sure I could learn to do this purely in > aptitude, but when I last tried aptitude and it immediately replace a > 'held' package, I tossed it.
Get the old package from whatever source is available. Install it with dpkg -i packagename. Start aptitude, find the package and press =. That's it. The package is marked as held and will not be updated. Works for me. Anders -- - Debian/Unstable - KDE 3.3.2 - KMail 1.7.2 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
