| Walt Mankowski on 22 Feb 2006 13:11:52 -0000 |
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:09:05AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:06:15PM -0500, Walt Mankowski said: > > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday > > and it wants to install buggy version of libfreetype6 that will break > > my window manager. I'd like to put that on hold until things get > > sorted out. I read through the aptitude man page and this looked like > > the proper way to do it: > > > > aptitude forbid-version libfreetype6=2.1.10-1 > > > > When I run "aptitude show libfreetype6" it says that version is > > forbidden: > > > > Forbidden version: 2.1.10-1 > > > > but dist-upgrade still wants to install it. > > > > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? > > I note that the manpage says that dist-upgrade is more likely to do > unwanted things than upgrade. Beyond that, I'm not sure. Hmm, I'll have to try that. > That being said, what about 2.1.10 is going to break on you? It is > actually the right version for all apps but gnustep, as far as I know - > gnustep will need a rebuild shortly, and freetype upstream will need to > learn about proper soname handling some day, but I thought the situation > was mostly under control? Well, the discussion about the bug at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314385 scared me, particularly since I use windowmaker as my window manager. I'm in the middle of a bunch of projects and afford to deal with it breaking just now. Walt Attachment:
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