Re: holding packages

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
> 
> dpkg --setstatus hold libldap2-dev libsasl-dev libhsync0 libhsync-dev
> 
> all on the one dpkg command line.

     Craig Sanders posted the following script to this list over a
year ago.  It will do what you want.

#! /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

     It is trivial to modify this to make dpkg-unhold.

Bob
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