Hello

* John O Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been scouring the documentation, but I can't find the answer I
> want to a simple question.
> I want to put a package on hold, actually I've done it with dselect,
> but I don't like dselect, and I'm sure theres some way of doing it
> with dpkg. the manpage for dpkg says that 'hold' is a flag you can set
> for a package but doesn't say how to do it.

        You can do:

        echo "packagename hold" | dpkg --set-selections

> Can anyone help me out?
> 
> johno

Bye
-- 
DEFRESNE Sylvain

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