on Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 08:41:45PM -0500, Mark Rahner (mark_rahner@sparta.com) wrote:
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> Hello Debian World,
> 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. If I tell it not to remove the
> kernel image, the remainder of the dist-upgrade is aborted. From what
> I can glean from the various man pages, my problem would be avoided by
> placing the kernel-image package "on hold" but I can't for the life of
> me figure out how to do this. The dpkg man page implies that this
> should be possible using dselect but the dselect man page mentions no
> such thing.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
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.
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