On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:08:00PM -0800, riches@ms.washington.edu wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > >On 2/16/06, riches@ms.washington.edu <riches@ms.washington.edu> wrote: > >> > >>I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel > >>2.4.26. I would like to use a script to run: > >> apt-get upgrade > >> > >>on all of the cluster members, but "apt-get upgrade" wants to upgrade the > >>kernel: > > > >Carl, > > > ># echo "kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 hold" | dpkg --set-selections > > > >Check [1]. > > > >Regards. > > > >[1] http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html#HOLD-KERNEL-PKG > > > > I've not been using debian for very long (actually, it's only here for the > OpenMOSIX clusters). Are you saying that apt-get cannot be configured to > prevent a kernel upgrade and that I should use dpkg, or are you saying > that apt-get and dpkg use the same configuration files? Hi Rich, this command is an example of setting a state for dpkg (and thus apt-get). Aptitude (in ncurses mode) has an easier way: find the package and press '='. I suppose you could edit the dpkg state file manually but who does that? Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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