On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:27:12PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > What is the difference between pinning a package (as described in the > APT HOWTO), and setting the ``hold flag'' using dpkg?
pin decides priority of archived packages against installed one. hold just hold installed package. > Do APT and dpkg respect each other's methods of ``holding''? APT respects hold, if "apt-get dselect-upgrade" is used. PIN only works for woody APT. DSELECT care hold. DSELECT used with APT should care PIN. "dpkg -i" does not care any, I think. Correct me if I am wrong :-) But this is what I understand. Read "man apt_preferences" or APT HOWTO in "http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp"; -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
