Re: kernel-image and epoch

[bob@bobhilliard.net (Robert D. Hilliard)]

debian-devel.lists.debian.org@marc-haber.de (Marc Haber) writes:

> 
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:39:46 +1100, Herbert Xu
> <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > The only sure way of preventing it is to put the package on
> >hold.
> 
> Is there any way yet to do that without having to invoke dselect, a
> part of Debian that I haven't seen in nine months.

     Use dpkg-hold, a script posted by Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>,
on 4 Apr 2000.  It works like a charm.

---cut here---
#! /bin/bash

# dpkg-hold  --  command line tool to flag package(s) as held.
#
# by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26.  This script is hereby placed into the 
# public domain.
#
# BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking.  this is not good.

if [ -z "$*" ] ; then
    echo "Usage:"
    echo "      dpkg-hold <package...>"
    exit 1
fi

for i in $@ ; do
    echo "$i    hold"
done | dpkg --set-selections
---cut here---

Bob
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