Pinning a package to Feisty

[Derek Broughton]

Bill Moseley wrote:

> I built 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3 from Feisty source on my Gutsy machine.
> I now need to tell apt not to upgrade to Gutsy version, which it wants
> to do.  So I added:
> 
>     $ cat /etc/apt/preferences
>     Package: mutt
>     Pin: version 1.5.13*
>     Pin-Priority: 1000
> 
> Thus:
> 
>     $ apt-cache policy mutt
>     mutt:
>       Installed: 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3
>       Candidate: 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3
>       Package pin: 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3
>       Version table:
>          1.5.15+20070412-1ubuntu1 1000
>             500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
>      *** 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3 1000
>             100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> My question is can I instead pin so if a *newer* version of mutt
> becomes available in Gutsy (hopefully fixing a bug that forced me to
> pin in the first place) then the new version will get installed?

Can't you just use aptitude?

# aptitude forbid mutt=1.5.15+20070412-1ubuntu1

(or something like that - I haven't tried it).  The intent, at least, is
that apt will refuse to upgrade to that specific version, but will upgrade
to any other that becomes available.
-- 
derek