Bug#483067: Require development of an apt-hold utility to mark packages as held
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.12
Severity: wishlist
It would be useful to have an apt-hold tool which could mark packages as
held within the package database. Currently this has to be done through
dselect, aptitude, or by manually manipulating the /var/lib/dpkg/status
file. For example, it would be nice to mark a package as held by typing:
apt-hold foobar
A corresponding release facility could be used to free the package:
apt-free foobar
A couple of awk scripts could probably be used to provide this
functionality.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
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