At 11:43 Uhr -0700 17.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >At 5:54 PM +1000 4/17/02, Jeremy Higgs wrote: >> >>I'm pretty sure dpkg (or it might be apt) does this. Through dselect, at >>least, you can 'hold' a package, and it is simply not upgraded (version or >>revision) until you 'unhold' it. >> >>[ Actually... It's dpkg. Presumably something like 'dpkg --hold <package>' >>would do the trick... ] > >Apparently you're supposed to use dselect to hold stuff. However, it >didn't work for me: > >Just as a test case, I tried it on SDL.. chose sdl 1.2.3, and hit >"=". (hold). It showed held in dselect. Then did a fink update-all, >and sdl 1.2.4 downloaded, and... dpkg installed it right over 1.2.3. >I had assumed it would build the deb and then stop.
Why should it work, after all the hold command is not part of dpkg, but rather of dselect/apt. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
