Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-17 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:07:39PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: * On 16-01-01 at 07:28 kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: See the Debian FAQ. $ echo packagename hold | dpgk --set-selections Cheers. Is there a way to do this with apt-get (I do apt-get -u upgrade,

Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-17 Thread kmself
on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:12:08AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:07:39PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: * On 16-01-01 at 07:28 kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: See the Debian FAQ. $ echo packagename hold | dpgk

Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-16 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:34:31PM -0600, Lance Simmons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I really like apt-get upgrade, but there's a package I don't want to upgrade. The version of apsfilter in unstable right now says that it requires a version of ghostscript that hasn't yet made it to unstable.

Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-16 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 16-01-01 at 07:28 kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ See the Debian FAQ. $ echo packagename hold | dpgk --set-selections Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt

Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller), # Is there a way to do this with apt-get (I do apt-get -u upgrade, but don't want # to upgrade a specific package(s))? When a package is on hold, nothing touches it. Not dselect, not apt, not dpkg. Not unless you over-ride it, anyways ;) You might

Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: $ echo packagename hold | dpgk --set-selections If you don't want to remember the command sequence, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted the following script on debian-devel some time ago: ---cut here--- #! /bin/bash # dpkg-hold -- command line tool

Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?

2001-01-15 Thread Lance Simmons
I really like apt-get upgrade, but there's a package I don't want to upgrade. The version of apsfilter in unstable right now says that it requires a version of ghostscript that hasn't yet made it to unstable. Perhaps it would be possible to make it work without the more recent version of