Re: [PATCH] dpkg --hold package
On Friday 13 September 2002 12:24, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > I was missing hold/unhold action in dpkg command, so there is a patch
> > with this feature.
>
> Write your own wrapper. dpkg should not even know a packagae is on hold
> or any other desired state. Expect --set-selections and --get-selections
> to be removed at some point as well.
>
> Wichert.
how are we to toggle the package's state to hold if this is done?
What about the well known Debian backup script:
dpkg --get-selections|grep -e 'install$' > mypackages
??
If the main controller for the packaging system does not know this
information, what will?
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