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

[Justin Mason]

"John P. Looney" said:

>  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 ?

/etc/apt/apt.conf, add 

  RPM 
  {
     // Leave list empty to disable
     // Dec 19 2001 jm 
     AllowedDupPkgs {"^kernel$"; "kernel-smp"; "kernel-enterprise"; "openssl"; };
     HoldPkgs {"kernel-source"; "kernel-headers"; "kernel-smp"; "xmame-SDL"; };
  }

I don't want xmame-SDL or the kernel stuff tweaked with.

BTW I also have:

  APT
  { 
      Get 
      {
          Show-Upgraded "true";
      }
      Ignore-Hold "true";         // Dec 19 2001 jm 
  }

not quite sure why, but it might be helpful as well ;)



>  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 ?

subscribe to rpm-list at freshrpms.net -- Matthias is really helpful,
he should be able to accept uploads to the APTable part.

He's looking for contributors on a web-app frontend to really allow
third-party submissions. check the rpm-list archives ;)

BTW, I'm planning to RPMize (and apt-rpm-ize) most/all of CPAN when I get
back to Ireland ;)

--j.