Re: putting packages on hold

2000-12-09 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * John O Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I've been scouring the documentation, but I can't find the answer I > want to a simple question. > I want to put a package on hold, actually I've done it with dselect, > but I don't like dselect, and I'm sure theres some way of doing it >

putting packages on hold

2000-12-09 Thread John O Sullivan
Hi, I've been scouring the documentation, but I can't find the answer I want to a simple question. I want to put a package on hold, actually I've done it with dselect, but I don't like dselect, and I'm sure theres some way of doing it with dpkg. the manpage for dpkg says that 'hold' is a flag you c

putting packages on hold from cmd line

1999-10-23 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello Is there a way to put a package on hold from the command line? I'd prefer not to go into dselect just to find one package, (emacs20_20.3-11) which is giving me problems. I want to put it on hold to a new version comes out as this only causes problems when installing.