OT: Re: How to lock packages to protect

2011-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > > Forwarded Message > > From: Lisi > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: How to lock packages to protect > > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:03:57 +0100 > > > > On Saturday 24 September 2011 07:12:44 Ralf Mardorf wr

Re: How to lock packages to protect

2011-09-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 September 2011 07:12:44 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Anyway, I couldn't understand your whole reply, since I didn't like to > search for idioms translated from English to German ;). Oh dear! Mea culpa. :-( (my mistake, my fault) Herewith an attempt at translating. I don't know which p

Re: How to lock packages to protect

2011-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Volume 2011 : Issue 1761 > > > > Today's Topics: > > Re: How to lock packages to protect [ Lisi ] Oops, Pardon Lisi. I'm a dyslexic and won't be able to read my own text :D. It's a German language-virus, e.g. "The Germans have another

Re: How to lock packages to protect them of being removed during upgrades?

2011-09-23 Thread Lisi
Ouch!! Whatever happened Ralf? You don't usually post things for 20/20 vision only!! Sadly, I'm not joking. You have stumbled on one of my hobby-horses. I can't read screeds of asphyxiated text like that, no matter how much I enlarge it! I - and others like me - need spaces and breathing ho

Re: How to lock packages to protect them of being removed during upgrades?

2011-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 10:15 -0500, John Foster wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > Hi :) > > how can I find out which packages I need to lock against > upgrading, to > avoid that Synaptic will remove other packages I need? Isn'

Re: How to lock packages to protect them of being removed during upgrades?

2011-09-23 Thread John Foster
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > how can I find out which packages I need to lock against upgrading, to > avoid that Synaptic will remove other packages I need? Isn't there a way > to lock packages against removing? > > Usually there only will be some packages that