Re: apt sugestion

[Franklin Belew <frb@balance.wiw.org>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:33:35PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote:
> Never the less, it is not such an bad idea. For example I never want to
> my kernel/pcmcia modules be updated automaticaly. Yes, I know, I can set
> them on hold, and that is, what I do, but when ever I update them then
> manualy, I have again to set them on hold using dselect (is there a
> methode to do this with dpkg?)...
> 
> Martin
echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections
it should be trivial to make that into an alias or a shellscript if you do it
often :)

Frank aka Myth