On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:46:55AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Monday 22 January 2007 12:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:29:00AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > > > is the solution simply to wait until the repository deals w' the > > > situation, or is the problem on my end? > > > > depends on what you're trying to do. You can wait, though new bugs may > > be reported as the old ones are fixed. I suggest you hold the packages > > in question and proceed with the upgrade. > > > > how do i 'hold' the packages. i can't find anything on this in either the > apt-get doc' or on the web.
use aptitude interactively and ':' will hold a package at its current level. also, '?' within apt-listbugs allows you to pin the packages, but I've not tried it to determine the results. A
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