And I heard Adam craig exclaim: > My idea was to update the first server direct from the internet, > test, then (apt-move get/move) update the 2 other servers from > the first server. So how can I disable any updates relating to php4 ?
There is a way to put a hold on a package (which someone else will probably tell you, I'm not really sure what it is). But we do a similar thing to what you're describing here, and what we do is use dpkg with the -R option (see the man page for dpkg for more on this) to install all of the .deb files in a directory. This won't go out to the network or wherever and get other stuff--like more recent versions of files (although if some of the .deb's you're trying to install are missing dependencies, it might choke on them). Anyway, HTH. --Daniel F. T.
