How to lock a package version in apt-get

[Markus Schönhaber]

Dotan Cohen:

>> BTW: if you lock a package in Synaptic, Synaptic writes the relevant
>> info to /var/lib/synaptic/preferences. The syntax of the pinning info in
>> this file seems to be identical to what is required in
>> /etc/apt/preferences. So, you can let Synaptic do the work for you and
>> simply copy the relevant info to /etc/apt/preferences.
> 
> In theory, yes.

And also in practice.

> However, in practice:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/42178

Which does in no way contradict what I wrote previously.
Synaptic and apt use different preferences files. That's why I suggested
to copy the information from one file to the other.

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Regards
  mks