Exclude a package from 'aptitude full-upgrade'?

[bdz]

Is there a way to exclude a package from 'aptitude full-upgrade' or 'aptitude safe-upgrade'?

I normally run 'aptitude full-upgrade' regularly but there is one package I need to keep locked at an old version. The aptitude man page doesn't say anything about this.

thanks

[sgosnell]

Try putting "debian hold package" into your favorite search engine, then read a few of the results. There are many.

[4D696B65]

one package I need to keep locked at an old version. The aptitude man page doesn't say anything about this.

<package>=
Place <package> on hold: cancel any active installation, upgrade, or removal, and prevent this package from being
automatically upgraded in the future.

<package>:
Keep <package> at its current version: cancel any installation, removal, or upgrade. Unlike “hold” (above) this does not
prevent automatic upgrades in the future.

[bdz]

I tried

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aptitude -s full-upgrade libreoffice-base-core=

but it comes back with

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed

whereas there are 12 package that should be updated.

Should I be using hold with a different aptitude command? Or will libreoffice-base-core be skipped the next time I run

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aptitude full-upgrade

[reinob]

@bdz,

if you want to lock libreoffice-base-core you just

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# apt-mark hold libreoffice-base-core
libreoffice-base-core set on hold.


You can later unhold it.

[bdz]

Ahh. Great, thanks