upgrade-system (hoary)

[Nathan Sprangers]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:09 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> Hi Stephen
> 
> I believe you need to do something called 'pinning' to keep certain
> packages no matter what.
> 
> Never needed myself (yet), but search the list archives and you should
> find something.
> 
> - Jon
> 
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:53:58 -0500, Stephen Durham <smd271 at psu.edu> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >         I wanted to know if there is a place to prevent system-upgrade
> > from removing specific packages. If I run system-upgrade it removes
> > gstreamer0.8-mad leaving me without mp3 support for rhythmbox. Another
> > issue I have since upgrading to hoary is that gtali won't work. I guess
> > I can look for a bug report on that.
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
> > 

Jon is right, you need to "pin" the packages that you want to keep.  

Debian has an excellent APT manual that describes this:
http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin

More information can be found in the apt_preferences manpage.
~Nathan