"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
Put the packages you don't want to upgrade on hold. The
following script, posted spume time ago by Craig Sanders
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will do it for you:
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#! /bin/bash
# dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held.
#
# by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the
# public domain.
#
# BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good.
if [ -z "$*" ] ; then
echo "Usage:"
echo " dpkg-hold <package...>"
exit 1
fi
for i in $@ ; do
echo "$i hold"
done | dpkg --set-selections
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You can also give the same command manually.
Bob
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