[tech] Re: [wheel] gallery

[Nick Bannon]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:05:38PM +0800, David Adam wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 maset at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> > Is there anyway of stopping certain packages getting upgraded in a dist-upgrade?
> 
> Yes. `man 5 apt_preferences` and look at the sections on pinning packages.

echo "gallery hold" | dpkg --set-selections

(or do it in aptitude)

Pinning one package, like mussel has now, isn't a problem, it also means
that the package isn't totally held, it'll be upgraded if there's a
security update. However, the kind of distribution pinning that mermaid
and mooneye have confuses things and isn't much good when distributions
start to diverge and the libc changes, for example.

> Please do this. We had over 900 out-of-date packages on Mussel, and it
> would appear that only the SQL stuff broke really badly, which I guess is
> good but is still a pain in the bum. Once I got to about the 600th package
> I began to get a little less wary of upgrades.
> 
> David Adam
> zanchey@

Definitely worth it.

Any opinions on pulling martello back towards stable?

Nick.

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