Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

- Tong - <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> writes:

> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? 
>
> I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix,
> keeping tetex from upgrading to texlive will sure ease the transition for
> the moment. 

You should put your tetex packages on hold:

# aptitude hold tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra

Then try aptitude -s dist-upgrade.  If that would still pull in
texlive, you are bitten by bug #434731: aptitude will ignore the hold
if a package that is _not_ put on hold can only be upgraded by
upgrading a package that _is_ on hold.  But hopefully that will not be
the case.

The migration to texlive will pull in many hundred of megabytes if you
have tetex-extra installed.  In that case I would recommend to use
aptitude's TUI to uninstall it and manually select the texlive
packages you want (look in the dependencies of texlive-full).  This is
how I managed the transition without pulling in too much stuff.

Hope this helps,
Sven