Re: Can apt be steered?
If the package doesn't say "Helix", purge it. You don't
need any non-helix gnome packages to have a working gnome
distribution.
Tim
Michael Epting wrote:
>
> 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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Timothy H. Keitt
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