[wellylug] X.org on Debian

[Sam Cannell]

I just placed every package that puts files under /usr/X11R6/ on hold:

dpkg -S /usr/X11R6 | sed 's/, / hold\n/g' | sed 's/:.*$/ hold\n/' |
dpkg --set-selections

After you do that, none of those packages will be updated when running
a dist-upgrade.  Explicitly running something like 'apt-get install
xserver-xfree86' is the only way to update them while they're held
back.

Hope this helps,
Sam

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:14:57 +1200, John C Barstow
<jbowtie at amathaine.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get an 'equivs' package for XFree86?
> 
> I'm currently compiling and running the x.org server, but need to trick
> apt into thinking I have XFree86 installed to satisfy my dependencies.
> Currently I've just installed over the top of the apt-supplied packages,
> but that prevents me from safely doing an apt-get upgrade.
> 
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