On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:51:57PM +1000, brett wrote: > Greetings, > I have been trying to put some self compiled packages on hold, but for some > reason apt seems to be ignoring the "hold" status. See below: > > xxxxxx:/home/$user# dpkg --get-selections | grep squid > squid hold > squid-common hold > squidclient hold > xxxxxx:/home/$user# apt-get upgrade -dV > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back: > squid (2.5.9-10sarge1 => 2.5.9-10sarge1) > squid-common (2.5.9-10sarge1 => 2.5.9-10sarge1) > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > > Obviously apt wants to replace my packages with the official debian packages. > This was working fine before the recent squid security update... >
Because when the sums differ from what is in the official archive, dpkg wants to get the one from the archive. Read my HOWTO on customizing Debian packages for a slightly better approach: http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/?page=debcustomize -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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