[wellylug] X.org on Debian

John C Barstow jbowtie at amathaine.com
Mon Sep 13 13:04:57 NZST 2004


That's exactly what I need. Thanks for that!

> 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.
> 




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