Re: Firewall On Slink

[Andrew Stribblehill <a.d.stribblehill@durham.ac.uk>]

Lazarus Long <lazarus@frontiernet.net> writes:

> Many times, there are packages that one may choose to intentionally NOT
> upgrade.  (I have two such on this system at present, due to conflicts with
> other packages.  I also have all of X, all of tetex, and all of xemacs
> on hold, since every time they are upgraded, they cause a HUGE amount
> of bandwidth to be used, and I prefer to have manual control over when
> that is to be consumed.)  "apt-get upgrade" is just too much of a black
> box for my tastes.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.

You can always put packages on hold using dpkg. Do a get-selections,
then change the appropriate packages to 'hold' or 'held', I forget
which. Next set-selections back.

Cheerio,

Andrew Stribblehill