Re: Package upgrades why and how to avoid?

From	A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Package upgrades why and how to avoid?
Date	2016-12-24 14:30 +0100
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Joe, Michael,

Thank you guys, good explanation and tutorial.

I didn't know about "holding" feature so I will definitely implement that.
That was good help, thank you again.

Man without clue



On 12/24/2016 09:06 PM, Michael Lange wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:47:21 +0900
> Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why this happens and how to avoid this?
> 
> As an appendix to Joe's extensive reply:
> 
> Once you found the package(s) that would cause e.g. Skype to be removed,
> you can put these packages on "hold" (or "lock" in synaptic) so these
> packages won't be upgraded on future system upgrades until the hold is
> removed, allowing you to do full-/dist-upgrades without removing other
> packages that you want to keep.
> Unfortunately however, each one of synaptic, apt-get and aptitude have
> their own "hold" system, which won't be respected by the other programs,
> so to be on the safe side you might have to "hold" a package more than
> just once.
> 
> To put a package on "hold" for apt-get, just do  (as root):
> 	apt-mark hold <packagename>
> The aptitude command is similar:
> 	aptitude hold <packagename>
> In synaptic, select the package and pick from the menu
> 	Package -> Lock Version
> 
> Regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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Package upgrades why and how to avoid? Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> - 2016-12-24 03:50 +0100
  Re: Package upgrades why and how to avoid? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-12-24 10:40 +0100
  Re: Package upgrades why and how to avoid? Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-12-24 13:20 +0100
    Re: Package upgrades why and how to avoid? A_Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> - 2016-12-24 14:30 +0100

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