-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 13:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 22:34:04 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: [snip] >> >> Now when I notice that a newer version of xserver-xorg-video-ati has >> moved to testing (which, among other places, I can see at >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xserver-xorg-video-ati.html - thanks to >> Kelly Clowers) then I will do an >> 'aptitude unhold xserver-xorg-video-ati' >> and the usual 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'. > > Do you know aptitude's "forbid-version" command? You can forbid upgrades > to specific versions of a package. Then you won't have to check the > packages.qa.d.o page to see if a still newer (hopefully fixed) version > is available. Aptitude will upgrade to a newer version normally, but it > will keep the forbidden version off your system (unless you manually > override this again).
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