[ILUG] Excluding a package from apt update

[Peter McEvoy]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:54:21AM +0100, jason corcoran wrote:
> I was wondering how to exclude a particular package from being updated by apt. I have added the follwoing entry 
> 
> // never update the packages in this list
> Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
> //	"vim";
>     "binutils";
> };
> 
> to my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades but it still tries to update biutils when I run apt-upgrade or the auto update thingy in dapper.


Not sure about using the above, but this should work (on debian at
least):

echo vim hold | dpkg --set-selections

-- 
Pete