apt-get hold?
I'm running Woody, which is my first foray into really unstable
territory, because, frankly, Potato has been very solid. Now and then
we get an unusable package into Woody, but since I keep the old .debs
for a while, it's no big deal to reinstall the old working one.
However, the next time I do an apt-get upgrade, the new "bad" .deb gets
reinstalled.
I have a similar problem with the current Woody kernel-image trying to
replace my custom kernel-image .deb (and I have tried all sorts of ways
to use the -rev argument of make-kpkg to give it a name that looks like
a later rev, unsuccessfully).
The apt-get manpage refers to a "hold" attribute, which I suspect is the
way out of this mess, but how do I apply that attribute to a package
that I want to not be replaced? I've messed about a bit with dselect,
but that is one non-intuitive app to use, and I'm not sure that will do
it anyway. (Yes, I have read the man-pages and docs, but I probably
have missed something).
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