Re: apt-get

[Markus Oswald <moswald@iirc.at>]

On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 09:20, Craig wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> How do I setup dpkg/apt-get to hold back on a specific package when
> doing an
> apt-get upgrade ?

Take a look at apt_preferences(5)

>From the manpage:
[...]
VERSIONING
       One  purpose  of  the  preferences file is to let the user
       select which version of a package will be installed.  This
       selection  can  be made in a number of ways that fall into
       three categories, version, release and origin.
[...]

HTH
 Markus 
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