placing a hold on package
Hello,
I use apt-get dist-upgrade to update the Debian packages on my linux
box. Today apt-get spewed these chunks:
bash#apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ash cramfsprogs initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.17-686
41 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 37.6MB of archives. After unpacking 26.8MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
I do not wish the kernel-image package installed since I am already
running kernel 2.4.17 (downloaded kernel-source package & compiled it).
Reading the documentation & man pages, it seems that a hold needs to be
placed on the specified package for this to happen. I would like apt-get
to permanently ignore this package. Can someone please tell me how to
do this or at least point me in the right direction. I do not know if
the following output mignt help or not.
bash# dpkg -l | grep kernel
ii kernel-source- 2.4.17-1 Linux kernel source for version 2.4.17
ii pciutils 2.1.9-3 Linux PCI Utilities (for 2.[1234].x
kernels)
ii pcmcia-modules 3.1.33-1k1 PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel
2.4.17-686)
Thank youu
Faruk
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