Subject: Re: Bug#227079: install: dosen't honer dpkg system and no option to make it.

From: Michael Stone <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:31:25 -0500

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:33:18PM -0600, Mike Mestnik wrote:
>It would be nice if it would do something on the order of...
>{; # Stdout redirect
>dpkg -S <destination file name> |
>  cut -f1 -d: |
>    tr '\n' ' '
>echo hold; # Mark the pkg as held.
>} | dpkg --set-selections
>
>... If an env-var was set.

You need to be more specific; I'm not sure what you want from coreutils.

Mike Stone