Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I
> might want to hold back a package (exim, at the moment). Can I do this
> other than by using dselect? I have scoured the dpkg and apt-get man
> pages and can't see a way to do it.
Here's a nice little script. It would be nice to have it added to a
package somewhere, but I'm not sure which one it should go into.
Cheers,
- Jim
#! /bin/bash
# dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held.
#
# by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the
# public domain.
#
# BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good.
if [ -z "$*" ] ; then
echo "Usage:"
echo " dpkg-hold <package...>"
exit 1
fi
for i in $@ ; do
echo "$i hold"
done | dpkg --set-selections
