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.
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Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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