Keeping a deb file, and not upgrading it....

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 19:56 +0000, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> But now, Adept, and apt-get have targeted that file as "upgradeable". I want 
> it to be saved until a new Ubuntu version is out. How can I do that?

If you use Synaptic, you can just select your package then go to
Package->Lock Version, and it will not be upgraded anymore.

Warning: from past experience, it seems that apt-get does NOT respect
packages locked by Synaptic. That is, it will happily upgrade a package
even if Synaptic locked it. Not a real problem though, once you are
aware of it. Just need to be careful when using apt-get afterwards, not
to accidentally upgrade the package.

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Vince