[Dclug] RedHat Enterprise Linux subscription expired... oh my.

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

One way of "pinning" a package is to make a dummy package with no files, 
with a version number 100 greater than the real version, and "install" it.

Another way is to administratively remove it: rpm -e --justdb sacred-package

Of course, you will forget you did this, so it's a crappy solution, and 
doesn't help if other packages need it as a dependency.

JIM

Zachariah Mully wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 09:31 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>   
>>    Besides, who doesn't run an apt-get -su dist-upgrade before doing
>>    anything?
>>     
>
> This'll show you what is about to be installed for a complete upgrade of
> your system. I find that apt-get is much better at sanely installing
> dependencies than other tools, and it helps to be able to see what is
> going to be upgraded, what will be installed new, and what will be kept
> back. I don't know if it's possible with rpm to 'pin' packages, but I've
> had good success pinning old versions that I know work and are critical
> and letting everything else upgrade.
>
> Z
>
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