[ILUG] Re: apt-get, rawhide and mirroring (fwd)

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, John P. Looney wrote:

>  Question. I have custom versions of apache, PHP and snmp on my
> workstation. I'd like them *never* to be upgraded. How do I do that ?

indeed.. i have a custom openldap where it would be disastrous if it 
was upgraded to a stock RH rpm. (RH compile theirs with gdbm support, 
which, without a doubt is absolutely awful, nay positively broken.), 
what you do is, in /etc/apt/apt.conf, specify something like:

RPM 
{
   Options "-vv";
   HoldPkgs
   {
        "openldap";
        "openldap-servers";
        "openldap-clients";
        "openldap-devel";
   }
}


notice apt has already has some built-in HoldPkgs, namely the kernel.

>  I like this. I like this a lot. I'll like it more when Dave has
> rsync'd the stuff on ftp.esat.net.
> 
>  Out of curiousity - I have things like AA mozilla and the latest mutt
> with S/MIME support at http://developers.antefacto.net/download - is there
> anything special I have to do so people can add that URL to their
> sources.list file, and then to "apt-get aamozilla" or something ?

submit to freshrpms, submit to me, or create your own apt repository.

> 
> Kate

--paulj