At 10:21 pm, Friday, October 11 2002, Simon Wong mumbled:
> Can anyone tell me if there's a way to stop packages being upgraded if
> only the debian package revision has changed?
>
> I'd like to slow down the rate at which I'm updating my testing
> packages.
>
You put it on hold.
echo '<pkg> hold' | dpkg --set-selections
Or, find it in dselect, and hit '='.
> If I do this though, will there be a way to manually update a package if
> I do have problems with one?
>
Or unhold it, and upgrade. But otherwise, yes, you'll have to 'apt-get
install' it to update it.
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