On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 08:46:50AM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote: > MoiN > > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:36:28PM +0200, pseelig@debian.org wrote: > > I'm not aware of any secure routine to safely prevent apt-get from > > upgrading packages without putting them manually on hold. > > Now that's _very_ easy. You just need a list of packages you want > to keep up to date and supply them to "apt-get install" which > will automagically install those and resolve missing > dependencies. > > I don't see what you are missing here? what is missing is you cannot also keep up on security updates by issuing `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' regularly, doing so will bring the entire system up to `unstable' unless you futz with the sources list every time you want to upgrade a couple packages to the `unstable' versions. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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