Re: upgrade -1?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:18:05AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>>     Hey people. What's the accepted way to upgrade everything on your
>> system, except for an exclusion list? Looking at apt-get -s upgrade,
>> I want to exclude a package or two but still have the convenience of
>> upgrade. Is that possible?
>
>Why not set the packages you do not want upgraded to "=" in dselect and
>then upgrade?

You can also do this using 'echo foo hold | dpkg --get-selections'
(where foo is the name of a package to put on hold) if you don't like
using dselect.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]