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Re: holding a package against upgrades



On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 09:31:37AM -0600, United States Ret. wrote:
> I have been using sid and do not want iceweasel 29.
> 
> I have decided to revert to iceweasel 24.5 and have now put that on hold
> (=) in dselect and worry that will override my decision and upgrade anyway.
> 
> Is there a better way to make sure apt never upgrades from iceweasel 24.5
> like pin or priority or something. Here is my current apt.conf:
> 
> APT {
> Install-Recommends "false";
> Install-Suggests "false";
> };

JFTR, 'Install-Suggests "false";' is redundant.

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