On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these have > grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live with. Some I don't know > about. > > Is there a way of telling apt to upgrade all _except_ a given package? I'm > not keen on dealing with packages one by one. > > Also, am I right in assuming that the #188900 bug is such that I should > avoid upgrading binutils? > > Thanks, > -Richard.
I find dselect useful in these situations. During package selection, you can hold a given package. If at a later time you want to unhold it, well, choose the unhold option. I'm using testing: $ dpkg -l binutils ii binutils 2.14.90.0.4-0.1 The GNU assembler, linker ... and bug #188900 seems fixed. Graeme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
