Re: Placing package on hold

To: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Placing package on hold
From: Bill McCarty <bmccarty@pt-net.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 22:55:12 -0700
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Hi Bob,

Doh! Now I see it in the man page. Thanks for the pointer!

Cheers,

--On Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:36 PM -0600 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>wrote:

Bill McCarty wrote:

What command-line incantation can be used to place a package on hold, in
the same way that entering = in dselect does?


  echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections


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Bill McCarty, Ph.D.
Professor of Information Technology
Azusa Pacific University

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