Mike Leone on 30 Apr 2007 15:54:26 -0000 |
sean finney (seanius@seanius.net) had this to say on 04/30/07 at 11:22: > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 10:17 -0400, Mike Leone wrote: > > Would I do this: > > > > echo -e "postfix hold\ postfix-pcre hold\ postfix-ldap hold" | dpkg --set-selections > > > > Will this be enough so that my postfix installation will not be touched,the > > next time I do a "apt-get upgrade", or do I need to do a "pin" of all 3 > > packages in apt.preferences? > > that seems to do the trick for me in my testing chroot, though i suppose > it doesn't hurt to be "extra sure" by pinning it in apt.preferences > too :) OK. So I would put this, in apt.preferences? Package: postfix Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 2000 and repeat for postfix-pcre, postfix-ldap? > > to be sure i asked some folks in debian-devel, and the consensus seems > to be that for what you want they're basically equivalent, though with > apt.preferences you might be able to get a little more flexibility and > reliability (if something happens to your status database, if you > remove/reinstall the package, manually do/force something, etc). and > also, your configuration is in a readable, editable file, which is a > benefit. > > > > sean > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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