Re: preventing apt from upgrading postfix

2007-01-14 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Justin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JH> 'postfix-dev' packages however I want to keep my current postfix JH> version as it is heavily patched. JH> So I decided to read the Debian docs on apt-get [0] to figure out how JH> to *make* apt forget about upgrading my postfix packages. to ho

Re: preventing apt from upgrading postfix

2007-01-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:07:31PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Hi List > > Running an update shows that Etch wants to upgrade my 'postfix' and > 'postfix-dev' packages however I want to keep my current postfix > version as it is heavily patched. > If you patct/customize your version of postfix

Re: preventing apt from upgrading postfix

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Hartman
On 1/12/07, Jochen Schulz wrote: I would try it the other way round and pin your currently installed Postfix's version to a value > 1000. Pinning it to 1001 didn't work initially but when I changed this: Pin: version 2.3.4-3 To this: Pin: version 2.3.4 All worked ok. Now if I run apt-get upgr

Re: preventing apt from upgrading postfix

2007-01-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Justin Hartman: > > Package: postfix > Pin: version 2.3.4-3 > Pin-Priority: -1 I would try it the other way round and pin your currently installed Postfix's version to a value > 1000. This should do what you want and additionally you will never have to touch this pinning entry again (for example,

preventing apt from upgrading postfix

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi List Running an update shows that Etch wants to upgrade my 'postfix' and 'postfix-dev' packages however I want to keep my current postfix version as it is heavily patched. So I decided to read the Debian docs on apt-get [0] to figure out how to *make* apt forget about upgrading my postfix pac