Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:18:05AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> Hey people. What's the accepted way to upgrade everything on your >> system, except for an exclusion list? Looking at apt-get -s upgrade, >> I want to exclude a package or two but still have the convenience of >> upgrade. Is that possible? > >Why not set the packages you do not want upgraded to "=" in dselect and >then upgrade?
You can also do this using 'echo foo hold | dpkg --get-selections' (where foo is the name of a package to put on hold) if you don't like using dselect. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
