At 9:23 PM +0200 4/17/02, Max Horn wrote:
>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.
From the dpkg manpage:
INFORMATION ABOUT PACKAGES
dpkg maintains some usable information about available
packages. The information is divided in three classes: states,
selection states and flags. These values are intended
to be changed mainly with dselect.
...
PACKAGE FLAGS
hold A package marked to be on hold is not handled by dpkg,
unless forced to do that with option --force-hold.
-Ben
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