On Lu, 03 sep 12, 13:57:17, The Wanderer wrote: > Is there any way to tell apt to "hold" a particular package in a non-installed > state? Several, but the easiest would be to pin it to a priority smaller than 0, see apt_preferences(5) for more info. However for your case it might be easier to find the real culprit, see below. > Having previously encountered problems due to having tried to dist-upgrade > across a long gap, I perform a dist-upgrade to testing on the order of weekly. > When apt-listbugs reports a bug which is important enough for me to want to hold > off on upgrading the package, I use > echo "$PACKAGE hold" | dpkg --set-selections > to tell dist-upgrade not to upgrade that package for the time being. > > However, on occasion I have found that a problematic bug comes not from apt's > desire to upgrade an installed package, but from its desire to install a > specific new package. As such, I would like to be able to tell it to "hold" the > installed version of that single package at "none", until further notice - > thereby excluding it and anything which depends on it from the dist-upgrade > calculations. The new package is most probably pulled in by a new version of some other package. Hold that instead ;) aptitude's interactive mode and 'forbid-version' is very useful in connection with apt-listbugs ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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