Hold back some packages on apt-get upgrade - how? ; gre

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 23:38 -0700, giovanni_re wrote:
> Running 10.04, with firefox installed from the ppa. cause that's more
> recent than the ff 3 in 10.04
> 
> 
> ff is the "nightly" build, from the ppa - but, I don't want to have to
> update it every day.
> 
> So, how can I tell apt to upgrade everything but ff "nightly"?
> 
> Thanks :)

Pinning - see for example,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto


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