On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Rob wrote: > More of a wish than a bug, it should be possible to inhibit the > download/upgrade of individual packages. For example, I have vim 5.0-0.2 from > Hamm installed. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', it pulls the unstable packages > from my local mirror, including a newer package of vim. Unfortunately, at the > time of writing, the vim package is missing alot of functionality. I would > like to have a 'Dont-upgrade' section or something, where I can place this an > any other packages I don't want upgraded.
You have to use the hold command from dselect or use the magic command line: echo "vim hold" | dpkg --set-selections Jason
