Re: apt-get upgrade advice
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0200, Richard Kimber wrote:
> I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these have
> grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live with. Some I don't know
> about.
>
> Is there a way of telling apt to upgrade all _except_ a given package? I'm
> not keen on dealing with packages one by one.
Hi,
you can tell dpkg to hold one package. Then the package won't be updated
automatically until you change it again. This can also be used if you want
to recompile a program, which other packages depend on, yourself. To do
so, try this:
echo <package> hold|dpkg --set-selections
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