On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:04:01 +0200 Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0200, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these > > have grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live with. Some I > > don't know about. > > > > Is there a way of telling apt to upgrade all _except_ a given package? > > I'm not keen on dealing with packages one by one. > Hi, > you can tell dpkg to hold one package. Then the package won't be updated > automatically until you change it again. This can also be used if you > want to recompile a program, which other packages depend on, yourself. > To do so, try this: > echo <package> hold|dpkg --set-selections Many thanks. Just one other thing, what is the opposite of 'hold'? The man page only indicates two flags 'hold' and 'reinst-required'. I'm not clear how I permanently "unhold" something. '--force-hold' I assume just overrides the hold for one particular occasion. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
