Re: Apt for RPM question, blocking certain rpms

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:43:54AM -0500, Erich Schroeder wrote:
>   Well, I have a special-purpose RedHat installation in which I must not
> install the PHP, gd-devel, and other rpm packages because they get in the 
> way of the special-purpose by muddy-ing up the versions.

Assuming apt 0.5.x, put this in the RPM {} section in
/etc/apt/apt.conf:

    Hold { "^php$"; "^gd-devel$"; };

You get the idea...

Steve
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