gtkpod on ubuntu

[JoeHill]

Lennart Sorensen wrote: 

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:24:47PM -0500, Christopher Aitken wrote:
> > So, I'll have to do,
> > 
> > 'apt-get install gtkpod=0.99.10-2~ppa1'
> > 
> > from time to time?  
> 
> Well once you install a package with the ~ in the version, it should
> keep upgrading it automatically after that (unless a non experimental
> package with a higher version comes out and replaces it, then it will
> stick with the normal version again until told otherwise again).

The problem in the case of this gtkpod package is that it keeps wanting to
update the experimental package even though the version numbers appear (to me)
to be the same. On my Ubuntu system it shows an update from 0.99.10-2~ppa1 to
0.99.10-2. Is there some way, like a 'skip list', to tell apt not to upgrade a
particular package unless one explicitly requests it? I know urpmi allows me to
do this, but I also know how you feel about package managers like RPM ;)

> Whatever you tell it, it remembers.  So when told to install the
> experimental version, then it will keep doing that as long as there are
> updates.  Similarly one can do apt-get install foobar/unstable to
> install the unstable version of that package on a system tagged to
> default to stable or testing or whatever, and will keep upgrading to
> whatever is the current unstable package.  apt-show-versions is a handy
> tool for listing what is installed and what state it is in and what
> release it is pulling from.

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