Can apt be steered?
apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I
see that I have a gnome-bin (and maybe some other Gnome-related packages)
that is not from Helix and I suspect that is the source of my problem. So,
does anybody know a way to steer apt preferentially. That is, how can I
ensure that .debs from debian/woody/main don't replace the ones from Helix
that are presumably "integrated" to work together?
I suspect there is no easy way to accomplish this, short of individually
putting packages on hold and commenting out lines in sources.list, but I
hope I'm wrong.
Is there even a way to see where potential upgrades, will come from? I
normally apt-get -s upgrade to see what is going to happen before I
upgrade, but this doesn't even show the new package version numbers, much
less where they are coming from.
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