aptutude holding packages

[Tony Arnold]

Derek,

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 14:35 -0300, Derek Broughton 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" :-)

I'll give it a try. It doesn't seem to be mentioned in the man page for
aptitude!

> > 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.

I had always assumed synaptic and update-manager used apt-get
underneath, but maybe not.

Regards,
Tony.
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