Stephen Gran on 8 May 2004 02:26:02 -0000


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

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:19:02PM -0400, Walt Mankowski said:
> But I *don't* want to install version 1:2.1.11-8.  That's why I gave
> it a negative priority.

You're thinking about it backwards - give the currently installed
version an insanely high priority, so that it trumps the priority an
upgrade gets.

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