on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:33:59AM +0000, Colin Watson (cjw44@flatline.org.uk) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >on Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 08:41:45PM -0500, Mark Rahner > >(mark_rahner@sparta.com) wrote: > >> I'm trying to upgrade from a mixed potato/woody to a woody. I edited > >> my sources.list file, ran "apt-get update", then "apt-get > >> dist-upgrade". This procedure results in an attempt to remove > >> kernel-image-2.2.17. I don't want to do this because I'm running a > >> custom kernel to support Win4Lin. > > kernel-image-2.2.17 sounds like a package from Debian, unless it's one > you compiled yourself with kernel-package. Are you sure that it will > actually be a problem? (It's safe to have no kernel-image package > installed.) Doh! I shoulda read it...<g>. <...> > >I *think* this works: > > > > $ dpkg --get-selections > selections.out > > $ cp selections.out selections.in > > $ vi selections.in # replace 'install' with 'hold' for desired pkgs. > > $ dpkg --set-selections < selections.in > > > >Just tried that w/o a subsequent update, it seems to have worked (didn't > >break anything, anyhow). > > > >...though corrections welcomed. > > That should work fine, though 'dpkg --set-selections' doesn't actually > need you to give it a full list; it will only change the packages > mentioned in its input. Thus, this works just as well: > > # echo 'packagename hold' | dpkg --set-selections > > ... where 'packagename' should be replaced by the name of the desired > package, of course. True enough (I'd tried that as well), though if you wanted to modify a bunch of packaages' status, the full dumpt trick would work. You only have to feed back the modified packages. Not that this appears to effect performance -- execution time appears the same either way. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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