Re: holding packages
Drew,
echo "<pkgname> hold" | dpkg --set-selections
This is actually how dselect does its job.
Regards,
Alex.
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Why don't dpkg or apt handle package statuses? You can install a package
> from the command line, but you can't hold it.
>
> dselect is the only way I know to do this, why can't it be done from the
> command line? I thought the use of dpkg was supposed to be optional.
>
> Drew
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