Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

[Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:40:29PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote:

>  - Nor can I use apt-get upgrade -- at one point my kernel image was
> upgraded (thus forcing me to re-compile to get sound and a few other
> essential modiles back) -- and every time I now try to upgrade I get an
> insistent attempt to upgrade my kernel image yet again -- what the hell
> do I have to name it to stop this behaviour?

ever heard of a thing called "hold"?

btw:
you can set this from commandline, too, if dselect is mad at you:

echo kernel-image hold | dpkg --set-selections

cheers,

Michael, a bit nervous about upgrading to testing

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