On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:03:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 18:48, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday > > and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried > > will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that > > version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. I read > > through the aptitude man page and this looked like the proper way to > > do it: > > > > aptitude forbid-version libfreetype6=2.1.10-1 > > > > When I run "aptitude show libfreetype6" it says that version is > > forbidden: > > > > Forbidden version: 2.1.10-1 > > > > but dist-upgrade still wants to install it. > > Hold the package instead of forbidding it.
Thanks. I'm familiar with how to hold packages. But I was hoping that this forbid-version option in aptitude would be an improvement since I could block a single version rather than holding the entire package. Does forbid-version not work at all, or does it simply not do what I think does? Walt
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