Re: holding packages
John,
I use `apt-get dselect-upgrade' so it works for me. ;)
Regards,
Alex.
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote:
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> Okay, now do this with apt...
>
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
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> >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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