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Jon Miller
<jlmiller at mmtnetwo To: plug <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
rks.com.au> cc:
Subject: [plug] apt-get question
14/12/2002 10:31
AM
Please respond to
plug
>I think I've asked this before but received no replies. Is there a way
>to tell apt-get not to install a certain package when doing an update of
>the entire system?
>Thanks
>--
>Jon Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
>MMT Networks Pty Ltd
If you check out a few copies of Linux Gazette (www.linuxgazette.com),
someone there mentioned changing the release number in the apt-get database
to something way higher than what was on the server. For example change
mozilla to release 99.99. This will prevent apt-get from updating it,
because any new release will be "down-level" to it.
RichardM