Re: apt-get upgrade advice
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:04:01 +0200
Wolfgang Fischer <Wolfgang_.fischer@freenet.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0200, Richard Kimber wrote:
>
> > I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these
> > have grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live with. Some I
> > don't know about.
> >
> > Is there a way of telling apt to upgrade all _except_ a given package?
> > I'm not keen on dealing with packages one by one.
> Hi,
> you can tell dpkg to hold one package. Then the package won't be updated
> automatically until you change it again. This can also be used if you
> want to recompile a program, which other packages depend on, yourself.
> To do so, try this:
> echo <package> hold|dpkg --set-selections
Many thanks.
Just one other thing, what is the opposite of 'hold'? The man page only
indicates two flags 'hold' and 'reinst-required'. I'm not clear how I
permanently "unhold" something. '--force-hold' I assume just overrides the
hold for one particular occasion.
- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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