Re: How do I put a package on hold without using dselect?

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 27 Jun, Phillip Deackes wrote about "How do I put a package on hold without using dselect?"
> I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I
> might want to hold back a package (exim, at the moment). Can I do this
> other than by using dselect? I have scoured the dpkg and apt-get man
> pages and can't see a way to do it.
> 

read the Documentation/Changes and Documentation/networking/routing.txt
files in the kernel source.  For local networks you don't need to add
the network with 'route add .....', it is done automatically by the
kernel.

-- 
Brian 
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