On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:36:05AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > 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... Please try echo -e "libc6 hold\nlibc6-dev hold" | dpkg --set-selections This should work. Jens