Question about locking packages

Thomas Röhl Thomas.Roehl at rrze.uni-erlangen.de
Tue Aug 1 00:13:09 PDT 2006


Hi everybody,

Recently we decided to replace the whole apt-rpm with smart. Now I got a 
problem with locking packages which actually should only be kept back 
til I give the signal to install them.

I consider something like this:

smart upgrade shows all locked packages
-> compare locked packages with the output of smart flag --show lock
-> give smart an option like smart upgrade --really-all to update also 
locked packages or smart upgrade <packagename> to upgrade this locked 
package.

Does anyone has a script to do this. maybe via cron? Or is there a 
workaround for this problem?

MFG
Thomas Röhl





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