Re: package management

[Andy Saxena <andyML@nyc.rr.com>]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:28:49AM -0700, David Wright wrote:
> 
> 
> 2) Is there any way to tell dpkg to mark a specific package with a hold 
> flag without going through the dselect menus? I always end up getting 
> lost and doing things I don't want to in dselect, and I really want to 
> be able to just type something like
>   dpkg --flag hold PackageName
> at the command line.

I have been using aptitude for package management for a while now, and
it can be easily configured to retain the information about hold on a
package.

I am using unstable.

-Andy


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