Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?
On 2/16/06, riches@ms.washington.edu <riches@ms.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote:
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> 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,
Yes, it can be done. Using dpkg :)
> or are you saying
> that apt-get and dpkg use the same configuration files?
Kind of. You can look at the state of the installed packages with:
$ dpkg -l
Debian keeps track of the installed packages and they have some
metadata. I don't know the theory of this. Perhaps someone else
can provide a link to some documentation.
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