On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:32, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > Hold the package instead of forbidding it. > > Thanks. I'm familiar with how to hold packages. But I was hoping > that this forbid-version option in aptitude would be an improvement > since I could block a single version rather than holding the entire > package. Does forbid-version not work at all, or does it simply not > do what I think does?
Not do what you think it does. Don't play with apt-voodoo unless you wrote it yourself, let the dependency resolver do it's job. :o) -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
