Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian
On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:32, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > Hold the package instead of forbidding it.
>
> Thanks. I'm familiar with how to hold packages. But I was hoping
> that this forbid-version option in aptitude would be an improvement
> since I could block a single version rather than holding the entire
> package. Does forbid-version not work at all, or does it simply not
> do what I think does?
Not do what you think it does. Don't play with apt-voodoo unless you wrote it
yourself, let the dependency resolver do it's job. :o)
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