Re: holding packages
Okay, now do this with apt...
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
>Drew,
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>echo "<pkgname> hold" | dpkg --set-selections
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>This is actually how dselect does its job.
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>Regards,
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>Alex.
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>On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Drew Parsons wrote:
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>> Why don't dpkg or apt handle package statuses? You can install a package
>> from the command line, but you can't hold it.
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>> 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.
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>> Drew
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