Stephen Gran on 8 May 2004 02:25:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Re: How to prevent a particular version of a debian package from upgrading?


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:12:59PM -0400, Walt Mankowski said:
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:06:12PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > When you start dselect, anything with a newer version available shows
> > up at the top of the display, whether or not you've marked it "hold".
> > So you go back in to dselect _after_ upgrading once in a while and you
> > see what's been updated upstream.
> 
> How about those of us who live in fear of dselect and just let apt-get
> take care of things?  :) pciutils already has a newer version out, so
> won't apt-get dist-upgrade just always show it under "The following
> packages have been kept back:"?

echo package hold | dpkg --set-selections

Then, periodically run 

apt-cache policy package 

(maybe from cron or something)
to see if there is a new version that is worth upgrading to - subscribe
to the bug report you are hoping to have resolved, so you know when it
is closed (bugs.debian.org - follow links)

Then 
apt-get install package
More manual work than getting the pinning correct, but each step is
easier.
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