Re: [PATCH] dpkg --hold package

[Piotr Roszatycki <Piotr_Roszatycki@netia.net.pl>]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Adam Heath wrote:
> > > > I was missing hold/unhold action in dpkg command, so there is a patch with
> > > > this feature.
> > >
> > > echo pkg hold | dpkg --set-selections
> >
> > Too much to write, especially if you want to hold more packages.
>
> alias/shell script.

Yet another dpkg-* tool?
Why there is no such alias or script coming with official dpkg package?

I'd like to see clean and easy way to hold or unhold packages, not another
tricky shell scripts.

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