On 17/4/02 5:35 PM, "Max Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:58 Uhr +0200 17.04.2002, Kilian Koepsell wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:30:55PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: >>> [...] >>>>> Type: bundle >>>>> Depends: xfree86-base (= 4.2.0-4), xfree86-rootless (= 4.2.0-2) >>>>> Description: Prevents automatic update... >>> >>> It's an interesting strategy, but still kind of a pain. I like the earlier >>> thought about "--no-update=mozilla", except that it's stateless (have to >>> remember to do it every time) and it seems like feeding it a list (gtk, >>> qt, mozilla, etc other long ones like that) would be stretching what a >>> flag like that should really be accomodating. >>> >>> Maybe a stub file, or a stub field in fink.conf, can have packages to >>> exclude from updates, being a wrapper around a hack like the one JFM >>> suggests [1] of creating a dummy package descriptor, and maybe a new "fink >>> exclude ..." sub-command can be used to create the list in the first >>> place. >> >> hi, >> >> i like that idea. what about a command like >> fink hold mozilla > > Maybe we do this.... > > >> >> which checks for the latest mozilla version, say 0.9.9-4, then >> creates a new file hold-mozilla-0.9.9-4.info containing the above >> mentioned few lines and installs the package hold-mozilla-0.9.9-4. > > ... but certainly not this way! That's a hack, and has all sorts of > problem (I am not going to list them all here now, I have to go to > university). The proper way is to add a seperate file/DB for this to > Fink where it keeps track of this information. Also we'd need a > reverse "release" or so command. > > There are many better ways to do this than to introduce fake packages. > > > Still this doesn't mean I say it'll be added like this. Submit a > feature request if you like. > > > Max
I'm pretty sure dpkg (or it might be apt) does this. Through dselect, at least, you can 'hold' a package, and it is simply not upgraded (version or revision) until you 'unhold' it. [ Actually... It's dpkg. Presumably something like 'dpkg --hold <package>' would do the trick... ] HTH! _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
