Re: Release Notes: no (usable) aptitude on some arches in woody

[Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:38:11AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Frank Lichtenheld (djpig@debian.org) [050522 00:16]:
> > @@ -427,7 +429,7 @@
> >            using <prgn/aptitude/. With 
> >  	  
> >        	  <example>
> > -aptitude hold | unhold &lt;package&gt;
> > +&oldreleaseapt; hold | unhold &lt;package&gt;
> 
> I don't believe that this part works:
> aba@sol:~$ apt-get hold 
> E: Invalid operation hold

Indeed, seems I was a bit hasty on this part of the patch.
Is there any other possibility than dselect or aptitude to set
a package on hold? dpkg doesn't seem to support that...

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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