apt-get and hold/ignore

[Mike Fedyk]

Frank Pineau wrote:
> Ok, I'm stumped.  In debian, you could put a hold on a package with dpkg
> --set-selections.  In the FC world, I can't for the life of me figure
> out how to do that with either apt-get or synaptic.  It's very annoying
> because I have several packages installed that are newer than what's in
> the repositories (xscreensaver, for example) and apt-get insists it's
> older and wants to upgrade it.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to get apt-get/synaptic to ignore a package in
> FC2?

I would suggest you put a priority on the fedora and livana packages as 
these projects are specifically geared to fedora, and then the other 
repositories for packages not available in fedora.us or livana.

Here is a apt preferences file that does just that.

Mike
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