Re: dpkg and apt questions :)
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:13:25PM +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote:
> This might have an obvious answer, but I couldn't figure it out
> myself. Is there an easy way to seethe changelog of a new package
> without installing it on my system? The purpose of this is to know if
> I'm interested on upgrading the package or not.
Not exactly but use download only and see change log.
Also look at:
-s option in apt-get
-u option in apt-get
http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp
and
$ apt-get install apt-howto/unstable
$ man apt-get
$ man apt-cache
$ man apt_preferences
> BTW, I know I can put a package on hold using dpkg --force-hold, but I do not know how (or if it is possible) to see which packages are on hold and how to remove the hold option.
use dselect
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