Hi Hans! At first: This is a support question and properly better suited for debian-user@ or its local off-springs. A german one is available, too! debian-devel is for (suprise suprise) development discussions.
(and i have cc'ed you in this mail, which is against CoC…) On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 18:01, Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > as I have trouble with the package ppp since version 2.4.5-*, and no one cared > although I filed a bugreport, I set the package to hold (version > 2.4.4-rel-10.1 > is working fine!) Does your bugreport include as much information as possible? Maybe if you tell us (read: debian-user not debian-devel) what your problems with ppp are someone can point you into the right direction. Pinging the maintainer helps sometimes, too. > However, as the old version is working fine, I am looking for a way, to > install > newer packages but hold the old ppp-version. I could still not manage it, > because of dependencies (which is logically). Neither with aptitude nor with > apt-get I found an option. Any hints? No option as ignoring dependencies is not an option (and not a good idea). What you can do is 'apt-get build-dep' to install the build dependencies of a package and 'apt-get source' to get the source code. I would recommend to change the version in debian/changelog, after that you can build it, for the lazy people 'apt-get source -b' will work. You are out of luck if the source package depends on newer ppp than you have (obviously), so this will not work for ever - or even at all now. (in essence: you are starting your own more or less unsupportable backports) > Talking of aptitude just a simple question: "apt-get --purge remove 2.6.32-*" > is removing anything with "2.6.32-" in its name. But aptitude does not offer > this option, doesn't it? Is aptitude using some other syntax??? Note that "2.6.32-*" in apt-get is NOT a shell-like global but a regular expression! So it matches also "2.6.32", "2.6.32--------" and "226632"! Don't know if and how aptitude supports this or not through, not my cup of tea^Wpackage manager… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTimxfE62wB8Zt=v2oske9coqyyf...@mail.gmail.com
