Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 19:21:37 +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> You can remove those lines once 4.3 is available. There is no way for
> apt to know which version you want to upgrade to unless you tell it.
But I wouldn't know when a package would be available (there are
several packages I have to track).
> If you want to just make a particular version (ie. 4.2) uninstallable,
Yes, this is what I want.
> then pin it to a sufficiently low priority, as I have outlined
> elsewhere in the thread.
This does *not* work.
> This is generally not such a good strategy, though, since minor
> upgrades will break this.
Minor upgrades should be OK.
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