1. How can I `hold back' packages so Debian doesn't upgrade them? 2. Does apt-get/dpkg always overwrite existing files, or only if their timestamps are older than the corresponding file in the .deb?
I run a customized potato box. Usually I keep custom stuff separate from Debian by installing it in /usr/local. This was not the case for XFree86 version 4. Thinking I had some time to kill this morning, I foolishly did a `apt-get upgrade', which "upgraded" the X packages to whatever Debian thinks is the latest version of 3.3.6. My X installation got destroyed. I'd like to prevent this from happening again ;) -chris
