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Re: Packages I Don't want to upgrade



Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org> writes:

> Troy Telford said:
> > Also - I know there is a XF4 deb packaging project, and it's rather...
> > alpha.  Is there at least a meta-package that will meet all the XF86
> > dependancies, and not be overwritten by XF86 3 debs?  (Meaning, it meets
> > the deps for it, but it'll let me use the existing tarball installation
> > from XF86.org?)
> 
> Check out the equivs package.  It lets you create dummy packages that say
> various dependencies are provided/required to handle situations like this.

You could also put them on hold with dselect.

-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development



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