Re: how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Eric Delaunay wrote: Hello, I would avoid upgrade of few packages when I upgrade my system from a new distribution. The concept you're looking for is 'Hold'. Just move the highlight to the packages you don't want upgraded and press 'H' to put them on hold. When you do want to upgrade them, just 'unhold' them by pressing the 'G' key. Here are the relevant lines from the 'Select' help screen of dselect: Mark packages for later processing: +, Insert install or upgrade =, H hold in present state -, Delete remove :, G unhold: upgrade or leave uninstalled _ remove purge config -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) :-) Christian
Re: how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Eric Delaunay wrote: Hello, I would avoid upgrade of few packages when I upgrade my system from a new distribution. The concept you're looking for is 'Hold'. Just move the highlight to the packages you don't want upgraded and press 'H' to put them on hold. When you do want to upgrade them, just 'unhold' them by pressing the 'G' key. Here are the relevant lines from the 'Select' help screen of dselect: Mark packages for later processing: +, Insert install or upgrade =, H hold in present state -, Delete remove :, G unhold: upgrade or leave uninstalled _ remove purge config Christian In fact, it's in help page ;) But I didn't saw it a while ago then used dpkg directly for months. Yes, I should read help pages carefuly before posting so trivial query :-( I'll go through dselect at next upgrade :-) Thanks for your reply. -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib
Hello, I would avoid upgrade of few packages when I upgrade my system from a new distribution. Packages I should not upgrade are base, netscape and few others. base because I changed some rights on devices (under /dev) and I don't want to reset them (and base is not required to upgrade (see package description)). netscape because I don't want to upgrade it synchronously with system upgrade (mostly because it's only an installer that require netscape tar to be present in /tmp :( ). Is there a way to tell dselect/dpkg to skip some installed packages during an upgrade without removing them from distribution ? (if provided on a cdrom, it hard to erase them ;) ) (dpkg is called from dselect passing -iGROEB options that recursively parse distribution directories and upgrade *all* packages previously installed). Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
