On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:45:58PM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote:
> > to treat updates for packages. You can essentially put a "hold" on
> > any package. Unfortunately, I forgot where this file is :( I got
> > this info from the debian-dpkg mailing list, where it was posted a
> > couple weeks ago. Perhaps a search of the archives would turn up
> > something?
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> I use dselect, and I think '=' does that hold for me;
> I had to use it to get some complaining deb to install...
> (latest pronto mailreader I think)
> Also, someone mentioned about control-c'ing to cancel an unwanted
> update... well, I have another vote for dselect: after you update
> your package list, and enter the package selection list (which, granted,
> takes some time), the updates auto-selected are in a group at the top of
> the list... so you can see what the selections are before doing it.
>
> I really like the command line apt-get for grabbing a known package tho.
>
> -ben
>
>
Appearantly (that spelling doesn't look right, help plz .. ) you can
do more with this file than just put stuff on hold. You can, for
example, say that you want some packages from unstable, some from
woody and the rest from potato, and stuff like that. This of course
gets kind of messy, what with dependencies and all, but you can
also put "overrides" which can be used to keep, say, libc, from
being upgraded, even though you chose something from unstable which
requires a newer libc. I'm not sure if they (one of the dpkg developers)
were talking about something new in dpkg 1.9.x, or some feature that
has always been there.
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