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Re: Is there any way to prevent a package from upgrading?



on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:12:08AM -0600, will trillich (will@serensoft.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:07:39PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote:
> > * On 16-01-01 at 07:28 kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> > > See the Debian FAQ.
> > > 
> > >    $ echo "<packagename> hold" | dpgk --set-selections
> > > 
> > > Cheers.
> > Is there a way to do this with apt-get (I do apt-get -u
> > upgrade, but don't want to upgrade a specific package(s))?
> 
> my understanding is (watch me get corrected) that
> APT is a nice interface to the DPKG concept, or
> that APT evolved out of DPKG and that they each
> depend on the same settings and so forth.

apt is a distribution-level management tool.  dpkg is largely aimed at
specific packages.  dpkg is the older tool.

> you tell APT smoething, DPKG knows it. and vice versa.
> 
> [ i think. ]

Yes.

...the bit about apt and dpkg.  I really don't know if you think or not.


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