Michael Biebl wrote: > Bob Proulx: > > Charlie wrote: > >> I had never even known about apt-mark and when Matthias pointed it out, > >> tried it, read the man page and was amazed. > > > > The functionality of 'apt-mark hold' was new in Wheezy 7. Squeezy 6 > > didn't include that functionality. > > Sort of. > In Squeeze and earlier releases you could already use > dpkg --get-selections > file > edit file and s/install/hold/ for the desired package > dpkg --set-selections < file > > This had the same effect as "apt-mark hold". Arguably, apt-mark provides > the nicer interface :-)
Right. New in apt-mark. Has existed in dpkg --set-selections and get-selections for a long time. It is slightly easier to use in apt-mark now. A good improvement. > If you're interested which packages are currently put on hold, run > dpkg --get-selections | grep hold Or now in the new apt-mark run: apt-mark showhold Bob
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