Re: "Hold"ing non-installed packages

2012-09-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 09/03/2012 02:36 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 03 sep 12, 13:57:17, The Wanderer wrote: Is there any way to tell apt to "hold" a particular package in a non-installed state? Several, but the easiest would be to pin it to a priority smaller than 0, see apt_preferences(5) for more info.

Re: "Hold"ing non-installed packages

2012-09-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 sep 12, 13:57:17, The Wanderer wrote: > Is there any way to tell apt to "hold" a particular package in a non-installed > state? Several, but the easiest would be to pin it to a priority smaller than 0, see apt_preferences(5) for more info. However for your case it might be easier to f

"Hold"ing non-installed packages

2012-09-03 Thread The Wanderer
Is there any way to tell apt to "hold" a particular package in a non-installed state? Having previously encountered problems due to having tried to dist-upgrade across a long gap, I perform a dist-upgrade to testing on the order of weekly. When apt-listbugs reports a bug which is important enough