Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

First of all, sorry that I miss read your meaning. 

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:47:30 -0400, Anticept . wrote:

> Can apt-get hold back package updates like aptitude? This might be one
> of them.

Yes, it can, but it's done at the dpkg level.

To hold a Debian package not to be updated by apt-get

  echo $package hold | dpkg --set-selections

Please note that such holding will not work for aptitude. So I agree with 
you, this might be one of them.

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