[ubuntu] aptitude and unwanted upgrade

Man-wai Chang mwchang
Sat Oct 1 22:32:59 PDT 2005


> 	Alternatively, after identifying each of the broken packages, you could 
> configure /etc/apt/preferences to set up apt-pinning, to not upgrade them. 
> I'm afraid that I can't give you any advice other than point you to the APT 
> How-To (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/) in this instance, as 
> I'm still trying to learn pinning, myself. :-)

Pinning is a bit complicated. Will try it later.

>> > AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST". Between this and "End Default Options" you'll
>> > find a
>> Didn't notice this one. Thanks.

I just found that Ubuntu's menu.lst doesn't have these boundaries... I 
guess I should just let it upgrade the old kernel and then fix the 
menu.lst manually.

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