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Re: X affecting console text color?? [solved]



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On 06/04/08 13:53, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 22:34:04 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> Now when I notice that a newer version of xserver-xorg-video-ati has
>> moved to testing (which, among other places, I can see at
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xserver-xorg-video-ati.html - thanks to
>> Kelly Clowers) then I will do an
>> 'aptitude unhold xserver-xorg-video-ati'
>> and the usual 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'.
> 
> Do you know aptitude's "forbid-version" command? You can forbid upgrades
> to specific versions of a package. Then you won't have to check the
> packages.qa.d.o page to see if a still newer (hopefully fixed) version
> is available. Aptitude will upgrade to a newer version normally, but it
> will keep the forbidden version off your system (unless you manually
> override this again).

Isn't that "pinning"?

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