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Bug#483067: marked as done (Require development of an apt-hold utility to mark packages as held)

Your message dated Thu, 5 Jul 2012 00:30:34 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #483067,
regarding Require development of an apt-hold utility to mark packages as held
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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.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 0.8.15

Nowadays we have this functionality in apt-mark,
so I am closing this feature request.
(Thanks to Stepan Golosunov for the pointer!)

apt (0.8.15) unstable; urgency=low
[…]
  * cmdline/apt-mark.cc:
    - reimplement apt-mark in c++
    - provide a 'showmanual' command (Closes: #582791)
    - provide a 'dpkg --set-selections' wrapper to set/release holds
[…]
 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:00:48 +0200


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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