On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:37:02PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
>
> Well the thing is that I think it would be good if an apt-get upgrade
> could be told wich packages not to upgrade, the way to do this could even
> be a file with a list of the risky packages, or some more complicated way.
The simplest way of doing this is to set the package status to
"hold". Apt will not auto-upgrade a held package. I keep a 2 line
shell script in /usr/local/sbin called "dhold" which takes the package
name as it's argument and places that package on hold. Note that
forcibly upgrading a package will break hold status, so you'll have to
put it on hold again afterwards. The script contains:
#!/bin/sh
/bin/echo $1 hold | dpkg --set-selections
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