On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:49, Frank Louwers wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:45:48AM -0700, Kevin wrote: > > is there a way to lock a package so that apt/dpkg wont > > update it? > > > > i use a bofh'd bash, but it keeps getting overwritten by new > > bash packages. i suppose i could chattr +i it but im hoping > > theres a more elegant solution. > > dpkg your version, start dselect, go to the bash package, and > press '='. That puts your package on hold ... > > Frank
or if you don't like dselect echo "my_bash hold" | dpkg --set-selections to test dpkg --get-selections | grep my_bash