Questions from a Linux refugee

Lev leventelist at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 23:13:02 UTC 2015


On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 18:56:49 +0100
Roman Naumann <roman.naumann at fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> If it's just one or a few packages, you can lock them with
> "pkg lock <packagename>". This might prevent upgrades, though,
> see "pkg help lock" for details.
> If you cannot upgrade any more, just use "pkg unlock <packagename>",
> upgrade, reinstall the package and lock it again after that.

Yes... but then I have to keep track what did I locked. No. Let the
computer work. I'm an electrical engineer, I want to design schematics,
PCBs, write software, and I don't want to work for a package management
system.

Levente



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