aptutude holding packages

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 22 17:35:20 UTC 2006


Tony Arnold wrote:

> I used aptitude to 'hold' the old xserver-xorg-core package because of
> its problems. Now the problems have been fixed in the repository
> version, how do I cancel the hold?

Would you believe "unhold" :-)

> Curiously, update-manager updated the package despite the hold.

I can't say I'm surprised.  I don't know what the correct answer is, but the
new generation package managers aren't doing it for me.
-- 
derek





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