-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 09:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a >> single pinning stanza work repeatedly, for different fglrx-driver >> versions, without need for manual intervention. > > Right. I just thought of an entirely different approach: use equivs > to create a meta-package with something like: > > Package: my-dont-ever-remove-packages > Depends: fglrx-driver, etc. > Priority: required > > or if that doesn't work replace the Priority with > > Essential: yes I thought this looked very promising, but it has zero apparent effect. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' simply proposes to remove the new metapackage, along with fglrx-driver et cetera. Yes, even with 'Priority: essential'. Possibly that's a side effect of something else (the default of 'Section: misc', maybe?), but I have nothing to really support that idea. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT1VwFAAoJEASpNY00KDJrIZAQAI/xVnyNeszvQVcvmy2XG3qV irA8wXI4WT3j8PBCt23xMrKVxS8//DjDiOGr6KfjGOQYjNNmaegh0VVUEdHpzT8U kFgePE/UqlRAEoetBQffl4sqtZEqAgrPSSyQgvsXuzuMVZmeQIFeMsSycPHc4cXl uPv8PSRxDX8A/fDKkcYPgKsm76l/TMuwgi4n7okDUrXvwdmffha2Bc6B+9yRxi5L mvMGxuK6ArUKPrsnzoDvxkqtQNVNlc+SO2Hnx3vCPZVFitVGpConkcWSMgd4PWCQ IW6sXHSYVu22r8V9euWAeIIHZ1EiU7b8CJyA3fNuM9/CV6IpXf6lApGvQdt7YTUy qi/lG8PcmlsjiMf497vTp3jsLRhGPi6Y98eKkcjboH8bsfoL7QmD6MrdzJZntPoQ oUdxsDy5HVOl5jIWcS89SxCU+G0+YVEgY1NIYFLuEhpSdZO1BWOiBsNh+sAfrgWH egfuTJ/RwXWk4VT2m2wAakA8NvrsvaUyg2GYH4CHUMpkKR2/FYeTz3KgndbeNPEH Y5mQ+IieeRW/CWhIODbaEKsqYJcU5INg/xf9kRdpp6kPR7BegVpvI3qRWDEyh3EK mWndod7h6MzaFjKU/54esa4B865T5dytbnCpWzzvxzVRuh7J4krAsV3jtqIdv2SS +sjZLuoL3h0zUAjBIf0H =quhF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53d55c06.9080...@fastmail.fm