Re: blacklist packages in apt

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:27:45AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I would just as soon not use apt-pinning if I don't have to, but if > that's what I must do, I'll use it. I think this is one of the purposes of apt-pinning. BTW, IIRC you must set a negative priority (I guess -1 will do) to

blacklist packages in apt

2007-11-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I'm unsure if "blacklist" is even the correct terminology for what I want to do, but at least it's a starting point. I administer servers for a small company. If it was up to me I wouldn't even have a gui on them, but the boss and developers come from the Windows world and require a