Am 09.05.2015 um 05:20 schrieb Charlie:
>
> From my keyboard:
>
> I have been looking through the man pages for: apt-get, apt-get upgrade,
> but I'm certain I don't understand how I might hold a package for a
> while?
>
> Anyone who can and is inclined to help, might assist me for the whole
> testing cycle in this case with their advice.
>
> I get this when I attempt an upgrade of stretch:
>
> Retrieving bug reports...
>
> Done Parsing Found/Fixed information...
>
> Done serious bugs of openssl (1.0.1k-3 → 1.0.2a-1) <Outstanding>
> b1 - #770605 - openssl: Removes symbol without SONAME bump
>
> Merged with: 768476 768522 769023 770278 771169 771993 781094 781929
>
> Summary:
> openssl(1 bug)
>
> Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages?
> [Y/n/?/...] n
> **********************************************************************
> ****** Exiting with an error in order to stop the installation. ******
> ********************************************************************** :
Hi Charlie,
you could either pin a package in /etc/apt/preferences.d/
Package: hello
Pin: release n=lenny
Pin-Priority: 995
..
see
http://blog.opperschaap.net/2009/12/12/using-the-preferences-file-on-debian-and-debian-based-distributions/
or hold a package
sudo apt-mark hold package_name
..
see
http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package
Matthias
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