On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Imran Geriskovan wrote: > Now I have debian machine installed by using the "testing" > branch 50 days ago. Now I want to upgrade/install some packages. > In dselect I choose the update option (using method apt). > Now the select says that it will going to upgrade nearly all of the > packages. In 50 days I've done alot of customization > on that machine and I do not want to ugrade most of them.
Well, upgrading is unlikely to affect your customization, but... > Meanwhile I'm quite satisfied with the system. > And I have no intention for such a big upgrade. ..if you simply don't feel like the upgrade, I can understand that. > However currently (and sadly) I can not use dselect for > automatic installion of other packages with all their dependent ones > because choosing "Install" will upgrade rest of the system. > > Hence I have no option :( other than manually downloading and > installing new packages with all others that the packages depends on. :( Ah, but you do! At least two options! On the one hand, you can simply use apt-get directly apt-get install foo will install foo and upgrade anything it *must* upgrade, because of dependencies, but not anything else. > Is it be possible to "freeze" some packages on a machine > an make them immune to later updates/installations? Yes, that's also possible. It's called "hold" and the keybinding in dselect is '='. Jules
