Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote:
> During recent update-alls, I've been getting failures installing
> applex11tool. because I don't have the Apple X11 Update 2006 1.1.3
> installed. Turns out I can't, because it requires OSX 10.4.8 and I
> don't wish to upgrade from my present OSX 10.4.6 (due to trouble with
> certain Classic applications). This is happening because fink wants
> to update quartz-wm, which in turn requires the updated applex11tool.
> How can I tell fink not to bother with these particular updates?
This is one of the things I would like to see in Fink, too. Right now it
cannot be done AFAICT.
There is the "hold" flag for dpkg, but it a) is clumsy, b) is not really
documented, and c) does not work.
a) The syntax is
echo quartz-wm hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
Try to remember this for a command that you will use once every 3 years :-(
b) I would be interested in reading any comprehensive and comprehensible
documentation of dpkg's package flags that are shown by "dpkg -l".
Haven't found any, so far; "man dpkg" is a joke.
c) According to "man dpkg":
hold A package marked to be on hold is not handled by dpkg, unless
forced to do that with option --force-hold.
When dpkg is called by fink to install a new version of a package, it
doesn't give a damn about the hold flag although no --force-hold option
is used. Calling apt-get directly (not via "fink -b install") seems to
respect it.
--
Martin
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